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Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!
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wisdom
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Jack Kerouac |
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56ec99f
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I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...
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Jack Kerouac |
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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stars
on-the-road
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Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
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london
paris
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6470f5e
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I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.
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Jack Kerouac |
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6d12c0f
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I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion
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Jack Kerouac |
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bbe0eae
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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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5cd32b0
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The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.
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Jack Kerouac |
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28299dc
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The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.
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Jack Kerouac |
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I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.
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Jack Kerouac |
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She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too much to bear sometimes like some fantastic futuristic Jerry Southern singer in a nightclub who steps up to the mike in the spotlight in Las Vegas but doesn't even have to sing, just talk, to make men sigh and women wonder I guess...
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Jack Kerouac |
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2c47da0
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Nothing ever happened - Not even this
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Jack Kerouac |
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01bbb59
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I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.
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Jack Kerouac |
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9402e5e
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Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.
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Jack Kerouac |
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I wanted to get me a full pack complete with everything necessary to sleep, shelter, eat, cook, in fact a regular kitchen and bedroom right on my back, and go off somewhere and find perfect solitude and look into the perfect emptiness of my mind and be completely neutral from any and all ideas. I intended to pray, too, as my only activity, pray for all living creatures; I saw it was the only decent activity left in the world. To be in some ..
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Jack Kerouac |
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Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.
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dance
climbing
hiking
rock
rhythm
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And in the flush of the first few days of joy I confidently tell myself (not expecting what I'll do in three weeks only) 'no more dissipation, it's time for me to quietly watch the world and even enjoy it, first in woods like these, then just calmly walk and talk among people of the world, no booze, no drugs, no binges, no bouts with beatniks and drunks and junkies and everybody, no more I ask myself the question O why is God torturing me, ..
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Jack Kerouac |
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cliches are truisms and all truisms are true
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Jack Kerouac |
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Then I suddenly had the most tremendous feeling of the pitifulness of human beings, whatever they were, their faces, pained mouths, personalities, attempts to be gay, little petulances, feelings of loss, their dull and empty witticisms so soon forgotten: Ah, for what? I knew that the sound of silence was everywhere and therefore everything everywhere was silence. Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ..
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Jack Kerouac |
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Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?
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Jack Kerouac |
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But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.
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unhappiness
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Jack Kerouac |
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e35e0be
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I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn.
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Jack Kerouac |
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547b3d0
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I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
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Jack Kerouac |
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3a6a833
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The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.
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Jack Kerouac |
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O hell, I'm sick of life - If I had any guts I'd drown myself in that tiresome water but that wouldn't be getting it over at all, I can just see the big transformations and plans jellying down there to curse us up in some other wretched suffering form eternities of it - I guess that's what the kid feels - She looks so sad down there wandering Ophelialike in bare feet among thunders.
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Jack Kerouac |
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6c68b49
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Life is life, and kind is kind
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Jack Kerouac |
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We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.
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Jack Kerouac |
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most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.
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Jack Kerouac |
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What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
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Jack Kerouac |
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One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with -
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Jack Kerouac |
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but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
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travel
wanderlust
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Jack Kerouac |
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to me a mountain is a buddha. think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin." japhy got out the tea, chinese tea, and sprinkled some in the tin pot, and had the fire going meanwhile...and pretty soon the water was boiling and he poured it out steaming into the tin pot a..
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Jack Kerouac |
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I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show
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jack kerouac |
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It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.
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travel
san-francisco
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Jack Kerouac |
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14abfa7
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The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.
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Jack Kerouac |
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36d7e54
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Rocks are space, and space is illusion.
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Jack Kerouac |
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5e664b9
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i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.
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Jack Kerouac |
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09c42a7
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We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.
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Jack Kerouac |
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e9a4007
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Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
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Jack Kerouac |
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He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always, and something caught at his throat as he realized what a strange sad adventure life might get to be, strange and sad and still much more beautiful and amazing than he could ever have imagined because it was so really, strangely sad.
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Jack Kerouac |
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8c21c6b
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I felt free and therefore I was free.
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Jack Kerouac |
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ae0573f
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But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do
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Jack Kerouac |
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99d49c9
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all
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Jack Kerouac |
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71a6d37
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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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togetherness
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Jack Kerouac |