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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
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Screenwriter
Writer
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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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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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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It all ends in tears anyway.
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Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)
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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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If you own a rug you own too much.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show
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To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
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Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
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In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach.
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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What is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want?” She didn’t know. She yawned. She was sleepy. It was too much. Nobody could tell. Nobody would ever tell. It was all over. She was eighteen and most lovely, and lost.
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And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
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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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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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stick at it like a benni addict
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Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.
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