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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

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
Amazement
Recollection
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.
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Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.
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Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
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Life is life, and kind is kind
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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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Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact, not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.
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And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.
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I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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And still the Void is still and'll never move - But I will be the Void, moving without having moved.
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It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.
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An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else
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He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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