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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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Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
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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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Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.
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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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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
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Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
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We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.
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They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
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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 was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
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Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.
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What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.
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I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.
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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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