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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
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.
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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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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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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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and the stars were icicles of mockery
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I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
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You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.
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Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
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Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.
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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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Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.
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At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
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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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A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.
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Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
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The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be supervised.
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And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
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