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I have the right ideas, but my words are too ... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

— Jack Kerouac Misattributed

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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.

Book of Dreams (1961)

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

On the Road (1957)

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

Pomes All Sizes (1992)

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

Visions of Gerard (1963)

Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

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