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Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.

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
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
Write
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Bottomless
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
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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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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
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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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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.
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I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures? was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.
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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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What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.
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and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?
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You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.
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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.
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Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
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If you own a rug you own too much.
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
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Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do
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