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I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

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
Swimming
Swim
River
Rivers
Right
Hardships
Hardship

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And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are happy, O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of happy nuts. (p. 200)
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She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.
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I swore I'd be in Chicago tomorrow, and made sure of that, taking a bus to Chicago, spending most of my money, and didn't give a damn, just as long as I'd be in Chicago tomorrow.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be supervised.
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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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Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.
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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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If you own a rug you own too much.
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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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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
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The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me
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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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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.
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Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.
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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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