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I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

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
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It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.
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Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love.
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If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?
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What do you want out of life? I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
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And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to get to Denver at once.
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Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.
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but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration
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equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength
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John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'
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...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
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Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
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It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.
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What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.
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I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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and the stars were icicles of mockery
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