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98cb8ac A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved. jack-kerouac memory vision writer writing Jack Kerouac
b5e08e4 Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last. book-of-sketches hate jack-kerouac world Jack Kerouac
5c3dc2c Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields. breeze field-station jack-kerouac life Jack Kerouac
ac897e9 I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language. books creativity determination dreams endurance famous-authors famous-quotes-from-classic-books genius jack-kerouac language literary-inspiration literature nanowrimo national-poetry-month prolific-authors the-writing-life words writers writers-and-writing Aberjhani
32e1545 I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones? jack-kerouac pride skeleton 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. beat-generation jack-kerouac love unrequited-love Allen Ginsberg
ff752a8 I have just discovered that I have no feelings, just thoughts, borrowed thoughts taken from someone I admire because he seems to have feelings. feelings jack-kerouac thoughts Allen Ginsberg
b3a33cf "A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he is on the right track, no matter what any of his fellow men say. In his eternal search for truth, the poet is alone. beat early-stories-and-other-writings jack-kerouac optimist prose-poetry society the-poet timeless Jack Kerouac
f950de7 Love is only a recognition of our own guilt and imperfection, and a supplication for forgiveness to the perfect beloved. This is why we love those who are more beautiful than ourselves, why we fear them, and why we must be unhappy lovers. beloved jack-kerouac love love-quotes lovers Allen Ginsberg
a0bf3bf The trouble with fashions is you want to fuck the women in their fashions but when the time comes they always take them off so they don't get wrinkled. Face it, the really great fucks in a man's life was when there was no time to take yr clothes off, you were too hot and she was too hot - none of yr Bohemian leisure, this was middleclass explosions against snowbanks, against walls of shithouses in attics, on sudden couches in the lobby - Talk about yr hot peace. fashions jack-kerouac sex word-sketch Jack Kerouac
646e429 "I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do: "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar. "Underworld" by Don DeLillo. He's a snob. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. He's a spoiled passport-carrying fuck stunted in eighth grade. "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. Enough already. "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. He's got Mayflowers in his blood." don-delillo favorite-books humor jack-kerouac pretension pretentiousness stephen-crane thomas-pynchon Caroline Kepnes
371c1c4 "I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do: "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar. "Underworld" by Don DeLillo. He's a snob. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. He's a spoiled passport-carrying fuck stunted in eighth grade. "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. Enough already. "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. He's got Mayflowers in his blood." -- don-delillo favorite-books humor jack-kerouac pretension pretentiousness stephen-crane thomas-pynchon Caroline Kepnes
4a876ac They're auras, Davey. I see them, too. The longer you stare at them, the wider the energy field expands until more colors begin to show themselves. beatnik chakras christina-westover colors energy-field energy-manipulation jack-kerouac literature-in-translation poetry san-francisco telepathy Christina Westover
1bf4b27 And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they've gone to the silence, the suppers of their own mystery. jack-kerouac souls store supper vacant Jack Kerouac
8310472 Pretty soon...do you realize there'll be so many additional childhoods and pasts with everybody writing about them everybody'll give up reading in despair-There'll be an Explosion of childhoods and pasts, they'll have to have a giant Brain print them out microscopically on film to be stored in a warehouse on Mars to give Heaven Seventy Kotis to catch up on all that reading- Seventy Million Million Kotis! - Whoopee! - Everything is free! jack-kerouac prophecy Jack Kerouac
ae047b4 Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of empathy could be telepathically shared with humanity,one soul after another, until every soul understood true meaning of love. chakras christina-westover empathy fiction humanity jack-kerouac love photography poetry san-francisco soul telepathy Christina Westover
81a2403 Assuming I am mad (Ha!) god, how I must have suffered to go mad. And all the time I was calling to people to save me and no one put out his hand and held it. This is like suicide, only I am alive and looking out of this living death I can see the people weep and feel sorry. Alas, nobody even weeps. It's all a dream. going-mad jack-kerouac suicide suicide-thoughts Allen Ginsberg
4968b6d I want to see you. I feel more and more at with you now actually than ever before, I feel you more, actually more clarity, more confidence, more trust. feeling-at-home jack-kerouac longing-for-love longing-for-someone love love-quotes Allen Ginsberg
f285331 Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER. art chakras christina-westover energy-manipulation fiction imagination inspirational jack-kerouac literature poetry san-francisco telepathist telepathy Christina Westover
38d2893 I realized Jack [Kerouac] was deeply committed to writing. Kesey was just as deeply committed to living and experiencing the lives of others; for him writing was just a part of living. jack-kerouac ken-kesey writing Sterling Lord