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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.

Jack Kerouac

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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
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
Understand
Away
Insist
Positivity
Scripture
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Understood
Wisdom
Freedom

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I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.
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Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.
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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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Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration
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i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.
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You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -
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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
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Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.
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the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
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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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Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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