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Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

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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Waiting
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Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.
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The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?
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Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything
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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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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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Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
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You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER
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I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
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One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.
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Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.
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Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
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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'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
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