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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration

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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Idol
Idols
Equal
Inspiration

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And with joy you realize for the first time Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more.
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The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights.
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The taste of rain -- Why kneel?
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I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
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I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show
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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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Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.
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He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence
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John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation' and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'
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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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equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha
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It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies
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And still the Void is still and'll never move - But I will be the Void, moving without having moved.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.
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I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.
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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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It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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No time for poetry but exactly what is.
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I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
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