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Jack Kerouac Quotes: Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
         

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.


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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.



It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

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