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Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

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
Wisdom
Rich
Anyone
Must
Good
Life
Otherwise
Loving
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