Quotes From "Tristessa" By Jack Kerouac

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I realize all the uncountable manifestations the thinking-mind invents to place wall of horror before its pure perfect realization that there is no wall and no horror just Transcendental Empty Kissable Milk Light of Everlasting Eternity's true and perfectly empty nature. Jack Kerouac
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I know everything's alright but I want proof and the Buddhas and the Virgin Marys are there reminding me of the solemn pledge of faith in this harsh and stupid earth where we rage our so-called lives in a sea of worry, meat for Chicagos of Graves - right this minute my very father and my very brother lie side by side in mud in the North and I'm supposed to be smarter than they are - being quick I am dead. Jack Kerouac
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I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles — I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that — I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life — This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours Jack Kerouac
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It starts raining harder, I've got a long way to go walking and pushing that sore leg right along in the gathering rain, no chance no intention whatever of hailing a cab, the whiskey and the Morphine have made me unruffled by the sickness of the poison in my heart. Jack Kerouac