My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
JACK KEROUACThe silence was an intense roar.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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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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I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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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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