"I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars."
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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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"If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."
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"I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in the bathroom, studying the woods, kidding around with a girl, playing cards lazily - all kinds of stuff that American brands 'shiftless.'"
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"My shoes are clean from walking in the rain."
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"I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death."
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"One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls."
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"The taste of rain -- Why kneel?"
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"How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist himself prowling about for his ultimate shot - an epic in itself. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)"
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"The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is wailing beer-caps of bottles and jamming on the cash register and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, its béat, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown."
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"It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it."
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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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"Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears."
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"LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities."
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"February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter."
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"I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion."
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"I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death."
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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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"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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"There's wisdom in wine."
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