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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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I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
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Pretty girls make graves
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And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.
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...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.
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..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was
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And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.
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Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
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Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)
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Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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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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The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be supervised.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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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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Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
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I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours
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-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I'd roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity.
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I like it because its ugly
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