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The pennycandystore beyond the El is where I first fell in love with unreality -- A Coney Island of the Mind, Lawrence Ferlinghetti https://t.co/U9zGCyJAKE

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Say it! No ideas but in things. Mr. Paterson has gone away to rest and write. Inside the bus one sees his thoughts sitting and standing. His thoughts alight and scatter— from Paterson, by William Carlos Williams https://t.co/dYpNs0MTBE

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Who can know the heart of youth but youth itself? -- Just Kids, by Patti Smith https://t.co/5reGUokjOP

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I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness. -- Nine Stories, by J. D. Salinger https://t.co/8t6IJwXhOd

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The soul that is within me no man can degrade. I am not the one that is being degraded on account of this treatment, but those who are inflicting it upon me. Booker T. Washington Up from Slavery https://t.co/YLfJanDXyM

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He had, by now, the look of a man who was waiting for something which had happened long before. -- The Recognitions, by William Gaddis https://t.co/tTqhckiRDx

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Every disease that submits to a cure shall be cured: but we will not call blue yellow to please those who insist on still having jaundice, nor make a midden of the world’s garden for the sake of some who cannot abide the smell of roses. -- The Great Divorce, by C. S. Lewis https://t.co/FWz0RtXJy5

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Do you know what it means to be heartbroken?...It means your heart isn't whole, so you can't really do anything wholeheartedly. -- The Last Picture Show, by Larry McMurtry https://t.co/3nToretv6J

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“Who has not known a journey to be over and done before the traveler returns? The reverse is also true: many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.” -- Travels with Charley: In Search of America, by John Steinbeck https://t.co/Hdbm1IFv9f

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In my case, I simply split the scene completely. I went to another country about five minutes before I would have been carried off to Bellevue. -- James Baldwin, from A Rap on Race with Margaret Mead https://t.co/IhlS1iXrM6