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Yeah, I said, but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

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
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
Honesty
Gratitude
Yeah
Shall
Artist
Believe
Decency

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