jack kerouac

American author, poet and painter of the world.

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It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate`s so easy compared.

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what's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

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I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money..

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Maybe that's what life is.. a wink of the eye and winking stars.

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In the late 1940s, he wandered the U.S. and Mexico and wrote his first novel, The Town and the City.

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In World War II, Kerouac served in the Navy but was expelled for severe personality problems that may have been symptoms of mental illness.

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That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once for all..

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Although Gene was white there was something of the wise and tired negro in him.

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I began to learn from him as much as he learned from me.

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the troubles of hitchhiking is having to talk to innumerable people, make them feel that they didn't make a mistake picking you up

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If you drop a rose in a river at its mysterious source, think of all the places it journeys by as it goes out to sea forever-

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nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

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I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.

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One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

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Because in the end you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

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Here's to the crazy ones. Because they change things.

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...the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

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Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.