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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.

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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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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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all
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It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.
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Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.
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I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
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Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder at their own lies, will be to make them open up and be straight with one another. Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.
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I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.
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Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.
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Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.
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I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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the golden eternity is { }
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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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Will you love me in December as you do in May?
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It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.
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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 cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.
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