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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.

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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There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.
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Yeah, I said, but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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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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I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
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And still the Void is still and'll never move - But I will be the Void, moving without having moved.
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And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
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And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!
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Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??
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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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and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?
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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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He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence
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For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.
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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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Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
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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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Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.
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