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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
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Recollection
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Yeah, I said, but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?
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The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.
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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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Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
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Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
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We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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And with joy you realize for the first time Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more.
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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
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It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.
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I felt free and therefore I was free.
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Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.
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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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The only truth is music.
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But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
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