04 July 2015
Visions of Gerard
Jack Kerouac

Highlights

Sin's so deeply ingrained in us we invent them where they ain't and ignore them where they are.
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A citizen of the raving world, but eager to be good
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Pray to be kind, wait to be patient, try to be fine. No use screamin. The Devil was a charming fool.
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See? the little face, the little head, look I could break his head by squeezing my hand - it’s only a little thing with no strength - God put these little things on earth to see if we want to hurt them - those who don’t do it who can, are for his Heaven - those who see they can hurt, and do hurt, they’re not for his Heaven - See?
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Just as the simplest thing in the world, when properly looked at, is the original riddle.