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I felt free and therefore I was free.

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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Jean-Louis Kerouac
Therefore
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all
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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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We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.
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Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
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The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
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If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?
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Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.
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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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