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I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show

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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
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Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone
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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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Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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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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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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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
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