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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

Jack Kerouac

Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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Bed Better Comfortable Freedom Sleep
Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Dangerous Love Pain Reality Yourself
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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Capability Girl Herself Horrible Personality Sweet
On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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Forever Gold Goodness Myself Night Soft Stars
I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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Flame Forever Light Myself Pretend Time
You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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Equality Idol Inspirational Yourself
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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People Phone Poetry
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Accomplishment Greatness Opinion Popular
Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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Deep See Thinking Wake Up
Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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Believe Myself True Writing
It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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Angel Believe Fall Forever Girl Life Lose Love Philosophy Relationship Sun Wisdom
I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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Death Give Up Laughter Myself Promise
My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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Eyes Life Myself Tears
So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Death Easy End Serious Start Yourself
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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Choice Crazy Myself Right World
Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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Compassionate Cruelty God Holy Personality Sea Universe

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

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