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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
Wisdom
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER
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We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.
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It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.
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Details are the Life of Prose.
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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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I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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No time for poetry but exactly what is.
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As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!
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-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I'd roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity.
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What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
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I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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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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To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
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