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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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Jean-Louis Kerouac
Probably
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What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.
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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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And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
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beautiful insane in the rain
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I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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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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The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.
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The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.
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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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