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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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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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The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.
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And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!
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Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder at their own lies, will be to make them open up and be straight with one another. Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration
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If you own a rug you own too much.
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Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
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equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha
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Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.
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Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.
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Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.
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As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk
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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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-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I'd roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity.
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Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
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He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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