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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
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