Maria Popova of my favorite site, Brain Pickings, has shared a list that Jack Kerouac once wrote entitled Belief and technique for Modern Prose. Here is the full list (the emphasis is my own):
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Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
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Submissive to everything, open, listening
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Try never get drunk outside yr own house
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Be in love with yr life
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Something that you feel will find its own form
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Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
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Blow as deep as you want to blow
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