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Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)

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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
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.
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It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
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