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I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.

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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Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.
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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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and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too. A long way to go.
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all
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One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
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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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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell
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LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
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Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.
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Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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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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Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
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