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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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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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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 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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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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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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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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and the stars were icicles of mockery
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Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.
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When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
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Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
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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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Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love.
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February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.
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As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
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don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.
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...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.
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I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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Will you love me in December as you do in May?
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