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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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As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk
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Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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I like it because its ugly
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Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
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And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
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I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?
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It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.
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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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And still the Void is still and'll never move - But I will be the Void, moving without having moved.
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and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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