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Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

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
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Kind
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Rest

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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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I felt free and therefore I was free.
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It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
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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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Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration
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In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach.
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Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
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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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