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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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She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.
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But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do
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There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.
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When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter? And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.
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I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
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I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show
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I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.
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beautiful insane in the rain
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I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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I just won't sleep, I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -
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Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
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Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
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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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At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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