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An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...Jack Kerouac
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The eyes of hope looking over the flare of the hood into the maw with its white line feeding in straight as an arrow, the lighting of fresh cigarettes, the buckling to lean forward to the next adventure something that's been going on in America ever since the covered wagons clocked the deserts in three months flat–Jack Kerouac
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Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)Jack Kerouac
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And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy, " O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)Jack Kerouac
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...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'... Page 100.Jack Kerouac
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In seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of greater strength for future atrocities glorious and otherwise.Jack Kerouac