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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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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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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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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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If you own a rug you own too much.
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stick at it like a benni addict
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all
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Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.
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Will you love me in December as you do in May?
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The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.
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The taste of rain -- Why kneel?
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...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
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To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
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Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
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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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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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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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