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I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.

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
Dead
Better
Lays
Poet

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Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??
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We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.
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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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don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.
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Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
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As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.
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It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night.
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The taste of rain -- Why kneel?
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It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
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Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.
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I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.
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Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.
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To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
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The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.
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Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.
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If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?
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Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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