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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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More quotes by Jack Kerouac
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures? was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.
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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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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
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I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.
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Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.
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I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
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Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
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and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?
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Life is life, and kind is kind
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And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.
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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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Will you love me in December as you do in May?
Jack Kerouac
Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.
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And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!
Jack Kerouac
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
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