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There's wisdom in wine.

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
Wine
Wisdom

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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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I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
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It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night.
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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
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To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
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and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too. A long way to go.
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I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
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Life is life, and kind is kind
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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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Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.
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Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.
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I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.
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Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.
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I felt free and therefore I was free.
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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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but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too
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Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition.
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And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!
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