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The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.
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
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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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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
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Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.
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Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
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I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
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I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.
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I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
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