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I'm writing this book because we're all going to 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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Dies

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Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
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Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.
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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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I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
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The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?
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February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.
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Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.
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She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.
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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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John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'
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...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
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Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.
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Down in Denver, all I did was die.
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When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter? And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.
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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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We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell
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All of life is a foreign country.
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The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
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...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.
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I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
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