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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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Life is life, and kind is kind
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I like it because its ugly
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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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I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?
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the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
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My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
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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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I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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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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We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.
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This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.
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Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?
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It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
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As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
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I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.
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Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?
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I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.
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