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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
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.
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Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?
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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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It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.
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I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all
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Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??
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I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow.
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A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.
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Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?
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Yeah, I said, but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?
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Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything
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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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Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
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No time for poetry but exactly what is.
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light
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