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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
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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It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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His friends said, Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there? and Bull said, I like it because it's ugly. All his life was in that line.
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Will you love me in December as you do in May?
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.
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Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.
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The unspeakable visions of the individual.
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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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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 wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures? was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.
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The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.
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When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
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It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.
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