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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, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!
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mad
inspirational
freethinker
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Jack Kerouac |
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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, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!" --
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mad
inspirational
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Jack Kerouac |
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533bfab
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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writing
simplicity
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Jack Kerouac |
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07f53c1
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There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.
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Jack Kerouac |
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Jack Kerouac |
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What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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travel
goodbye
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Jack Kerouac |
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1191264
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The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
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Jack Kerouac |
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A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
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parting
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Jack Kerouac |
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89cbc4c
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view
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Jack Kerouac |
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5564816
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I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
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Jack Kerouac |
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Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk -- real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
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Jack Kerouac |
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I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.
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Jack Kerouac |
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I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for a..
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life
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Jack Kerouac |
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because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...
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wanderlust
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Jack Kerouac |
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I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transmitted to me under a pine tree in North Carolina on a cold winter moonlit night. It said that Nothing Ever Happened, so don't worry. It's all like a dream. Everything is ecstasy, inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and fore..
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born
letter
mountain
empty
space
die
soul
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Jack Kerouac |
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It all ends in tears anyway.
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Jack Kerouac |
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ebd3dc2
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My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
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Jack Kerouac |
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Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.
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god
spiritual
love
inspirational
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Jack Kerouac |
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Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same."
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spiritual
love
inspirational
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Jack Kerouac |
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aa58c96
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead s..
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Jack Kerouac |
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beautiful insane in the rain
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Jack Kerouac |
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dbe8a1c
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life
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travel
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Jack Kerouac |
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3b56409
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It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.
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Jack Kerouac |
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0543522
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Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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Jack Kerouac |
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7656794
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Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
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Jack Kerouac |
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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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Jack Kerouac |
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Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running--that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's ..
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happiness
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Jack Kerouac |
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dc13d3f
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One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
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kindness
serenity
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Jack Kerouac |
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Jack Kerouac |
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f1acace
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But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
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inspirational
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Jack Kerouac |
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
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Jack Kerouac |
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So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you ..
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new-jersey
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Jack Kerouac |
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Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.
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color
sunset
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Jack Kerouac |
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06d4b61
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
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Jack Kerouac |
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They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.
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Jack Kerouac |
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This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
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Jack Kerouac |
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Jack Kerouac |
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Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?
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Jack Kerouac |
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We agreed to love each other madly.
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Jack Kerouac |
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What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't know," she said. "Just wait on tables and try to get along." She yawned. I put my hand over her mouth and told her not to yawn. I tried to tell her how excited I was about life and the things we could do together; saying that, and planning to leave Denver in two days. She turned away wearily. We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wonderin..
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Jack Kerouac |
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Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
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Jack Kerouac |
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1f5d435
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Jack Kerouac |
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a785688
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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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Jack Kerouac |
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f66829c
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I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
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inspirational
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Jack Kerouac |