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What do you want out of life? I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
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Writer
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.
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In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way, that he had heard from 'real intellectuals.
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Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
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And with joy you realize for the first time Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more.
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What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
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There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.
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I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
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And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.
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It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
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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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It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.
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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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I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
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beautiful insane in the rain
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