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Something that you feel will find its own form.

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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I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
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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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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.
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Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.
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February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.
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Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
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LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
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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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The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.
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and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?
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The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.
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Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.
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...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
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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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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength
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All of life is a foreign country.
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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