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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
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Equally
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More quotes by Jack Kerouac
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
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and the stars were icicles of mockery
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Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.
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We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration
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And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.
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The only truth is music.
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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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Details are the Life of Prose.
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I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
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and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.
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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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Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies
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Down in Denver, all I did was die.
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Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.
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Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?
Jack Kerouac