They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters … - Jack Kerouac

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When you can't cheat the game, you'd best find a means to cheat the players.

Jack Kerouac

They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law.

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The present representative of the Dedlocks is an excellent master. He supposes all his dependents to be utterly bereft of individual characters, intentions or opinions, and is persuaded that he was born to supersede the necessity of their having any. If he were to make a discovery to the contrary, he would be simply stunned - would never recover himself, most likely, except to gasp and die.

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There is a god. Nothing as tragic and ridiculous as this world could have happened by random chance.

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The cities of Italy are now deluged with droves of these creatures [tour groups], for they never separate, and you see them, forty in number, pouring along a street with their director - now in front, now at the rear, circling them like a sheep dog - and really the process is as like herding as may be.

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