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They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
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
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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
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Jean-Louis Kerouac
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It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
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Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.
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Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.
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LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
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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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No time for poetry but exactly what is.
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I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.
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