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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
Writing

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Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
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I felt free and therefore I was free.
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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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When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter? And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.
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Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy
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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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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
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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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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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The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights.
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But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do
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Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.
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Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.
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What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.
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the golden eternity is { }
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and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?
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