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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, what it does to you.


Jack Kerouac

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ANDREW FERENCE One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma ...
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ANDREW GAZE I just wanted someone to say 'you know, that looks like a fun place to be' because that's what I thi...
TONY BLAKE It was so embarrassing, everytime I see it, I blush. Imagine if you saw yourselves like that. It's o...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN One night this guy actually said to me, "Your legs must be tired, because you've been running throug...
JENNIFER ESPOSITO Lucasfilm called me out of the blue, and I almost hung up because I thought it was a practical joke....
DAVE FILONI Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and ...
TANYA TUCKER What keeps me up at night? Waking up to a scoop at another newspaper or on TV. I'm probably comp...
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GEORGE ALLEN, SR. Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow. ...
GEORGE ALLEN Try not to do too many things at once. Know what you want, the number one thing today and tomorrow....
GEORGE ALLEN I think a lot of it is we've got to get another third guy. Luckily, the other night against Seattle ...
DWANE CASEY The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK I think we get too hung up on categories. Obviously, the book market has to categorise things, and i...
MATT HAIG The universe does not shed tears when a star falls from the sky; it gives birth to another one.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO That gives us another three months to get all the rest up and running,
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JODI PICOULT The last two possessions we did not do what we wanted to do. We were running a certain pattern, and ...
JOHN BEILEIN 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
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JASON KIDD Geeks like to make things. Indeed, the drive to create is an intrinsic geeky quality (right up there...
KEN DENMEAD Catriona played brilliantly, and I felt I really hung in there. I didn't hit too many greens but I g...
JANICE MOODIE Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
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LIKE I I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
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LIKE I You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I Married to the Mob.
LIKE I Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I We were told by state emergency management director Jack Colley, 'Do what you need to do to get your...
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TAYLOR SWIFT I have kept a diary,
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BRIAN GIONTA I find so many opportunities to fall, to falter, and fail when I refuse to surrender to change. Chan...
STELLA PAYTON It is your omen, only you know the meaning. To me, it is but another star in the night.
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BEBE REXHA If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
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—the deadly fight
between two birds
JACK KEROUAC The other man, just as
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In this empty universe
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miles and brought
You wine
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The last
Faint cricket
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but a lot of waves
And a craving desire
is a wave…
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I don't k...
JACK KEROUAC We agreed to love each other madly.
JACK KEROUAC My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and ask...
JACK KEROUAC So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, ...
JACK KEROUAC But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wa...
JACK KEROUAC Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't...
JACK KEROUAC Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th...
JACK KEROUAC And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles fol...
JACK KEROUAC The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w...
JACK KEROUAC ...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it w...
JACK KEROUAC ...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ...
JACK KEROUAC ...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I ...
JACK KEROUAC I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’...
JACK KEROUAC The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is ...
JACK KEROUAC I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA ...
JACK KEROUAC He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows st...
JACK KEROUAC And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show...
JACK KEROUAC Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by ...
JACK KEROUAC It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowl...
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