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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
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
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Think
Thinking
Picture
Stop
Words
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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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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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
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Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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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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It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night.
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When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
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What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.
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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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It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
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...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
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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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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.
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I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
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In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way, that he had heard from 'real intellectuals.
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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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