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Author: Jack Kerouac
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  1. Jack Kerouac _ On the Road

    What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.
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  2. Jack Kerouac _ Visions of Cody

    …the loneliness…the "inexpressibly delicious" sensation of this memory - for as memories are older they're like wine rarer, till if you find a real old memory, one of infancy, not an established often tasted one but a brand new one, it would taste better than the Napoleon brandy Stendhal himself must have stared at…
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  3. Jack Kerouac _ The Subterraneans

    now this warm thought of greatness is a big chill in the wind-for"
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  4. Jack Kerouac _ On the Road

    all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country."
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  5. Jack Kerouac _ On the Road

    Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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  6. Jack Kerouac _ On the Road

    Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven."
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  7. Jack Kerouac _ The Dharma Bums

    Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?
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  8. Jack Kerouac _ Big Sur

    I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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  9. Jack Kerouac _ On the Road: the Original

    This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
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  10. Jack Kerouac _ On the Road: the Original

    They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.
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  11. Jack Kerouac _ On the Road

    My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
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  12. Jack Kerouac _ On the Road

    Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.
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