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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
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Swift
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Greatest
Since
Burroughs
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and the stars were icicles of mockery
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.
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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
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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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood
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Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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If you own a rug you own too much.
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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
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At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
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It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
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...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
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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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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
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