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Down in Denver, all I did was die.

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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Jean-Louis Kerouac
Denver
Dies

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Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!
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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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Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone
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Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.
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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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Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition.
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To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
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Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.
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Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything
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When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
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...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
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I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
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Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
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As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
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