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Once a person gave his talent to the world, the world put a stamp upon it. The talent was not a personal possession any more. It was something to be traded, bought and sold. It fetched a high price, or a low one. It was kicked in the common market.
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He was like someone sleeping who woke suddenly and found the world...all the beauty of it, and the sadness too. The hunger and the thirst. Everything he had never thought about or known was there before him, and magnified into one person who by chance, or fate—call it what you will—happened to be me.
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Nothing like a cup of tea to make a person feel better, man or woman.
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No person will ever get into my blood as a place can... People and things pass away, but not places.
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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. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac
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Born:
May 13, 1907
Died:
April 19, 1989
(aged 81)
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