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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
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equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha
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Down in Denver, all I did was die.
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I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.
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Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.
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beautiful insane in the rain
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Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.
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I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
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Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.
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the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.
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stick at it like a benni addict
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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and the stars were icicles of mockery
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
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There's wisdom in wine.
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