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I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

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
Beatnik
Catholic

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It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.
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Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition.
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength
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It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night.
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Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
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And still the Void is still and'll never move - But I will be the Void, moving without having moved.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.
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Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.
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Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.
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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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My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.
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Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.
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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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It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.
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The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.
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...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
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