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"The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view." — On the Road
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"Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running — that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all." — The Dharma Bums
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"Maybe that's what life is...a wink of the eye and winking stars."—Letter to Alan Harrington
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"You're a Genius all the time."—Belief and Technique for Modern Prose
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"I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down."—Letter to Ed White