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I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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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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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
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I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.
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Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.
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It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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