Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.


Jack Kerouac

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Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last.
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I like stories with a collision of disparate tones. Look at 'Shameless' or 'House of Lie...
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In Washington, 'delay' is too often code for 'derail.' Wink, wink.
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It's true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.
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Nudge, nudge, wink, wink. Know what I mean?
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O...
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Ques eso? Queso?
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Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
JACK KEROUAC
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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It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowl...
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