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59c0696 Follow your inner moonlight, don't hide the madness. beat-poetry howl beat-generation beat-poet Allen Ginsberg
637aefc I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk. travel gave-up resign forgiveness drunk beat-generation Jack Kerouac
5699bf0 You were right, I suppose, in keeping your distance. I was too intent on self-fulfillment, and rather crude about it, with all my harlequinade and conscious manipulation of your pity. love unrequited-love beat-generation jack-kerouac Allen Ginsberg
413af38 I do not wish to escape to myself, I wish to escape from myself. I wish to obliterate my consciousness and my knowledge of independent existence, my guilts, my secretiveness. escape introspection beat-generation Allen Ginsberg
b009be4 "Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by that? Camille has to stay home and mind the baby now you're gone--how can she keep her job? and she never wants to see you again and I don't blame her. If you see Ed along the road you tell him to come back to me or I'll kill him." Just as flat as that. It was the saddest night. I felt as if I was with strange brothers and sisters in a pitiful dream. Then a complete silence fell over everybody; where once Dean would have talked his way out, he now fell silent himself, but standing in front of everybody, ragged and broken and idiotic, right under the lightbulbs, his bony mad face covered with sweat and throbbing veins, saying, "Yes, yes, yes," as though tremendous revelations were pouring into him all the time now, and I am convinced they were, and the others suspected as much and were frightened. He was BEAT--the root, the soul of Beatific." beat-generation Jack Kerouac
fdd7693 Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back. life-lessons road-trip beat-generation Jack Kerouac
a538902 By the 'best minds' Ginsberg meant the dropouts, poets, musicians and world travellers, as opposed to doctors and lawyers. He understood that Wrong Planet people tend to pick up better communication skills, have greater visualisation, and can adapt to changing circumstances quicker than Rag, Tag & Bobtail. allen-ginsberg beat-generation beat-poet ginsberg Karl Wiggins
85c36b5 Does kittykat know there's a pigeon on the clothes closet? trembling-and-chaste beat-generation Jack Kerouac