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There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.

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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Eternal
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Everything
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