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- Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed.
- I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and…
- I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
- John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said…
- Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could…
- I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are…
- You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams,…
- 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…
- I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night,…
- When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices…
- In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the…
- I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I…
- And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its…
- It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead…
- One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual…
- She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too…
- You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
- In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely…
- I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for…
- I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist…
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