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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
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Jean-Louis Kerouac
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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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I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
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It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
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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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Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.
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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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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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No time for poetry but exactly what is.
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.
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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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I like it because its ugly
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and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too. A long way to go.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.
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the golden eternity is { }
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