"A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world."
-Jack Kerouac
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"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."
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"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
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"Write in recollection and amazement for yourself."
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"Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow."
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"I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life."
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"If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space."
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"Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance."
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"Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself."
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"Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment."
-Philip K. Dick
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