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"There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business."
- William S. Burroughs
We are sealed in our own little melancholy atmospheres, like planets, and revolving around the sun, our common but distant desire.
-- Jack Kerouac, Jack Kerouac and Allan Ginsberg: The Letters
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
--Jack Kerouac
The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
-Jack Kerouac
Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
-Jack Kerouac
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
-Jack Kerouac