"Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain"
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"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."
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"Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now."
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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."
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"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
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"Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink."
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"I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted."
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"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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"It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on."
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"Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever."
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"You can't teach the old maestro a new tune."
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"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."
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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-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."
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"No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength"
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"And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight."
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"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."
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"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."
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"It's all too much and not enough at the same time."
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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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"But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation, the wind'll blow it back."
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