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The only truth is music.

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
Truth
Music

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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
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They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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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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And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!
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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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You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??
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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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I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
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The unspeakable visions of the individual.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was
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Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
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