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The unspeakable visions of the individual.

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
Individual
Unspeakable
Visions
Vision

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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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I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show
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It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.
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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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I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light
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The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.
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What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.
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