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It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.

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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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And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!
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Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.
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It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.
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What do you want out of life? I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
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The unspeakable visions of the individual.
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
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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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An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else
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It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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And still the Void is still and'll never move - But I will be the Void, moving without having moved.
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Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration
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And with joy you realize for the first time Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more.
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The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights.
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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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...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.
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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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Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.
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