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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
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
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Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.
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I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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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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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
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Nothing ever happened - Not even this
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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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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...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Yeah, I said, but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?
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To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
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The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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It all ends in tears anyway.
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Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
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Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.
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I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact, not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.
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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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