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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

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
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Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
Golden
Eternity
Already
Dream
Ended
Awake

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What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights.
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The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.
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...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.
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I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
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I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
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And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.
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This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.
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Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.
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When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter? And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.
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Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.
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It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all
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If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?
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Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.
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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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