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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
Poet
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Writer
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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