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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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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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My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
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Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.
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I like it because its ugly
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
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As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
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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 why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
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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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What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?
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Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone
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You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration
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Down in Denver, all I did was die.
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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 never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.
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