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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.

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
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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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And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
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I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
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The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.
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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
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The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.
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I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?
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all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours
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It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.
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I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
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I just won't sleep, I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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