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- "What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
- ...-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in…
- I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of…
- Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official…
- Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.
- Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone…
- Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
- You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money…
- Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big…
- And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.
- On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it…
- What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't know," she said.…
- The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk,…
- It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out…
- The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along,…
- and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if…
- I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in…
- Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind,…
- Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They…
- They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
- The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and…
- I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be…
- I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home…
- And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
- The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than…
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