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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
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Decency
Honesty
Gratitude
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As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
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Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
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Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.
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February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
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Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone
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If you own a rug you own too much.
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I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
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beautiful insane in the rain
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It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
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There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.
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