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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
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
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Jean-Louis Kerouac
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I rather like the idea of having all my hours to myself: eating a Fudge Sundae, watching a movie, sleeping on my couch, singing in the bathroom, studying the woods, kidding around with a girl, playing cards lazily - all kinds of stuff that American brands 'shiftless.'
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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
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Nothing ever happened - Not even this
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What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.
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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
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And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!
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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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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.
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There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.
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I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
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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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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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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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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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