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An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else
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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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.
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Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.
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I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.
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Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love.
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And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
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