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Jack Kerouac

His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly. " All his life was in that line.

Bulls, Friends, Like, Line, Lines, Ugly Things

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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Give, Giving, Hope, Life, Men, Wisdom

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

Hippie, Mad, People, Talk, Yawning

Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.

Day, Dream, Good Night, Goodnight, Make, True

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

Belief, Deep, Silly, Understand, Want

What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.

Earth, Mean, Men, Sitting, Stars, Under

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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

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Especially look to those sins to which your crosses have some reference and respect. Are you crossed in your goods? Think if you did not over-love them and get them unjustly, or if in your children, see if you did not over-love them and cocker them, and so in all things of like kind. In what God smites vou, see if you have not in that sinned against Him, and so frame to lament your sins and to seek help against them.

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I think that's the fundamental thing - you can go anywhere you like as long as you're following a character that the audience likes and understands.

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