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Life is life, and kind is kind

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
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I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
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And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are happy, O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of happy nuts. (p. 200)
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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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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
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Down in Denver, all I did was die.
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Pretty girls make graves
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What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.
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As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
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Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.
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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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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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It all ends in tears anyway.
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It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.
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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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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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...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
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The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.
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