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Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just talents.
Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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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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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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I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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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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He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.
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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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If you own a rug you own too much.
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I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.
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And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!
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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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I just won't sleep, I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
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What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
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all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
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I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.
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It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies
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