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“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
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“Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.
O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac”
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O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac”
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“Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever."
[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
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[Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.]”
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“Nothing happened today. And if anything did, I’d rather not talk about it, because I didn’t understand it.”
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― The Savage Detectives
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