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Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.
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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Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
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I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
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But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do
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I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
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Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?
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..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was
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She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not glad when she said it I knew there was nothing in it but the idea of what one should do.
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My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
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One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.
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The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
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The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me
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Nothing ever happened - Not even this
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Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.
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Life is life, and kind is kind
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You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.
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I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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