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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

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
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
Wink
Vision
Maybe
Stars
Eye
Life
Beatnik
Winking

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beautiful insane in the rain
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And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.
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I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?
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It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
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I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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I just won't sleep, I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow.
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and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light
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And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!
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I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures? was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.
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