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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
Idol
Idols
Equal
Inspiration
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Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot!
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We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.
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Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy
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Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
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I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.
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Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.
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The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.
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Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.
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Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
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Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.
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They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
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I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
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Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.
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But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
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I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
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