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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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I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
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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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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
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And still the Void is still and'll never move - But I will be the Void, moving without having moved.
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It all ends in tears anyway.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
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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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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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Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.
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