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The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

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
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Jean-Louis Kerouac
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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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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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
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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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Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.
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I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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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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