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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
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If you own a rug you own too much.
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This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.
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beautiful insane in the rain
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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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I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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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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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
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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 never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.
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Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
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Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.
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There's wisdom in wine.
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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