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“You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money or fun you can get out of people and then you just throw them aside. Not only that but you're silly about it. It never occurs to you that life is serious and that there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time.”
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
― On the Road: The Original Scroll
“he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.”
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“Fucking was how babies were made.”
― Breakfast of Champions
― Breakfast of Champions
“The names of the cerros and the sierras and the deserts exist only on maps. We name them that we do not lose our way. Yet it was because the way was lost to us already that we have made those names. The world cannot be lost. We are the ones. And it is because these names and these coordinates are our own naming that they cannot save us. They cannot find for us the way again.”
― The Crossing
― The Crossing
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