"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."
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"Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy."
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"We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell"
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"My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized 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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"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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"Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?"
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"In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age."
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"I think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta."
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"a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn't got any money: he doesn't need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this."
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"Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH."
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"Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives."
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"I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing."
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"For life is holy and every moment is precious."
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"The road must eventually lead to the whole world."
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"As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk"
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"My witness is the empty sky."
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"If you own a rug you own too much."
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"One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world."
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"Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings."
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"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"
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