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If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

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
Dont
Sense
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Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.
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Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.
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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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What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.
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An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else
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Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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I just won't sleep, I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light
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and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?
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And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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