I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining any angers or gratitude or anything, and I say, like 'Deify Ryder, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha,' then I run on, say to 'David O. Selznick, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha' though I don't use names like David O. Selznick, just people I know because when I say the words 'equally a coming Buddha' I want to be thinking of their eyes, like you take Morley, his blue eyes behind those glasses, when you think 'equally a coming Buddha' you think of those eyes, and you really do suddenly see the true secret serenity and the truth of his coming Buddha hood. Then you think of your enemy's eyes.

Jack Kerouac

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