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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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What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.
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The only truth is music.
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When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter? And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.
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It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
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I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.
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Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
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The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be supervised.
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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
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What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.
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And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are happy, O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of happy nuts. (p. 200)
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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And still the Void is still and'll never move - But I will be the Void, moving without having moved.
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Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk
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