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

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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We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.
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Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.
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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
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LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
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When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
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Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.
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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
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Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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If you own a rug you own too much.
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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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It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?
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Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
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