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"It's a sort of furtiveness. Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there's no use flaunting on that level, the level of the 'public', a kind of beatness I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are " and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world It's something like that. So I guess you might say we're a beat generation."
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"Be interested yourself, and you will interest others."
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"The tragedy of this age is that many are hungry for the wrong reasons."
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"Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most."
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"Disco's are tricky. You look a total wally if you dance too early but after one crucial song tips the disco over, you look a sad saddo if you don't."
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"Society can only pursue its normal course by means of a certain progression of changes."
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"You have every right in the world to choose the kind of people that you place in your inner circle. By all means stay clear from negative minded individuals who are constantly very bitter with their lives and the lives of others. They wouldn't be too happy to watch you live a blissful life."
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"I left journalism because I met too many interesting people at an uninteresting salary."
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"Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it deserves the attention of the United States government and the people."
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"If you are stealing people's thunder just by being around and standing there; you really can't expect people to like you. People want their own thunder to be heard loud and wide, not yours! Swans should never despair over ducks not liking them."
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"Certainly we can end racism with love. We can demand that the federal government change its emphasis on racial distinction."
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"Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.'There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!"
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"Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars..."
Life

"He had become completely mad in his movements; He seemed to be doing everything at the same time. It was a shaking of the head, up and down, sideways; jerky, vigorous hands; quick walking, sitting, crossing the legs, uncrossing, getting up, rubbing the hands, rubbing his fly, hitching his pants, looking up and saying 'Am,' and sudden slitting of the eyes to see everywhere; and all the time he was grabbing me by the ribs and talking, talking."
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"There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go."
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"Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy."
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"Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub."
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"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop."
Exploration

"The earth will always be the same - only cities and history will change, even nations will change, governments and governors will go, the things made by men's hands will go, buildings will always crumble - only the earth will remain the same, there will always be men on the earth in the morning, there will always be the things made by God's hands - and all this history of cities and congress now will go, all modern history is only a littering Babylon smoking under the sun, delaying the day when men again will have to return to earth, to the earth of life and God."
History

"They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful rucksack a-back, and asked:-"Where are you going?" which is precisely what they asked me a year later under Television floodlights in New York, "Where are you going?"-Just as you cant explain to the police, you cant explain to society "Looking for peace."
Society

"My eyes were glued on lifeand they were full of tears."
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