All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.


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I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wan...
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The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.
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my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially free...
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I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wanderin...
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The silence was an intense roar.
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Pretty girls make graves
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Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glor...
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colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds it...
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our...
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, th...
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It all ends in tears anyway.
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At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver...
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At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
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Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the Spirit of the Mountain was thinking, and loo...
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It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
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As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clou...
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til...
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...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact ...
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Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your...
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For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze...
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Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana ...
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His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because...
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was th...
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I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
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I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my f...
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What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
I don't k...
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We agreed to love each other madly.
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and ask...
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So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, ...
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But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wa...
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Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't...
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th...
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And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles fol...
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The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w...
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...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it w...
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...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ...
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...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I ...
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I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’...
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The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is ...
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I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA ...
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He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows st...
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And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show...
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Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by ...
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