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No time for poetry but exactly what is.

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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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
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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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Down in Denver, all I did was die.
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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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Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!
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Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.
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In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach.
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Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition.
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And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!
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And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
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-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I'd roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity.
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Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.
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Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.
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I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.
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I like it because its ugly
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And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
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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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It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
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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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