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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

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
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
Everything
Believed
Wrote
Saws
True
Truth

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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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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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Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.
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Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??
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