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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.

Jack Kerouac

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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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