Pretty girls make graves.

Jack Kerouac

The Dharma Bums

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Topic

Beautiful women Beauty Dangers of love

Author

Jack Kerouac

Source

The Dharma Bums

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

United States

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Citation

Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. Viking Press, 1958, ch. 5.

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Source
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Medium
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Language
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Time
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Citation

Hammerstein, Oscar, II. "My Favorite Things." The Sound of Music. Composed by Richard Rodgers. 1959, Shubert Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.

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Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

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Source
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Medium
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Time
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Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

Current Citation

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