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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

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
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Traveler
Backpacking
Inspirational
Traveled
Nomadic
Matter
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Piled
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Inspiring
Tripping
Life
Road
Suitcases
Travel
Battered
Journey
Sidewalk
Longer
Traveller

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