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The only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing but burn burn burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
The only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing but burn burn burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
Approximate author period: c. 1945 AD · modern
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- Jack Kerouac
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- Approximate author period: c. 1945 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1922 to 1969; Wikidata Q160534, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q160534 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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