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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
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Wisdom
Truth
Music

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To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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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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He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence
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What do you want out of life? I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
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It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies
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The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me
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Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.
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I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.
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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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Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show
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Will you love me in December as you do in May?
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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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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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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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
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We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell
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