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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
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
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All of life is a foreign country.
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This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.
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What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.
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When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
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We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell
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I felt free and therefore I was free.
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And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are happy, O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of happy nuts. (p. 200)
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And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.
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