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Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.

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
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
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The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.
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Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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Details are the Life of Prose.
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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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I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.
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..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was
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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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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
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Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.
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i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.
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I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
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It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night.
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