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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
Golden
Eternity

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If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?
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My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.
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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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And still the Void is still and'll never move - But I will be the Void, moving without having moved.
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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Will you love me in December as you do in May?
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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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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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Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.
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I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too
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An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else
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Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
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It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
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And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.
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Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
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It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.
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I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.
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At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.
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