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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
Poet
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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I like it because its ugly
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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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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I just won't sleep, I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
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the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
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Down in Denver, all I did was die.
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They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
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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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If you own a rug you own too much.
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I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.
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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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Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.
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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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Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
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I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.
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I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light
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