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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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Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??
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Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
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I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
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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'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in the bathroom, studying the woods, kidding around with a girl, playing cards lazily - all kinds of stuff that American brands 'shiftless.'
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I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.
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all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it 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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We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.
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Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything
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Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
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