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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
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I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
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He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
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The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me
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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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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
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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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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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The only truth is music.
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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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My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.
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Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.
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The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.
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