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Jack Kerouac Biography

Jack Kerouac (/ˈkɛruˌæk/ or /ˈkɛrəˌwæk/, born Jean-Louis Kérouac (though he called himself Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac); March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) was an American novelist and poet of French-Canadian descent.

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We are nothing. - Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. - You and me.

Die, Dies, May, Nothing, Tomorrow

Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

Writing, Giving, Genius, Birth, Gives

Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

Everything, Girl, Line, Vision, Visions, Would Be

The beat generation (coined in Playboy)

Beats, Coined, Generation, Generations, Playboy

Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.

Ground, Laughing, Madness, Pinball, Rolling, Sadness

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

Depth, Shines, Shining, Sorrowful, Writing

What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?

Anyhow, Body, Holyboy, Men, Rainbow

And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.

Beautiful, Stars, Moon, Come

It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

Beneath, Crazy, Goodbye, Skies, Travel

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.

Death, Easy, Fall, Ignorance, Life, Remember

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

Fighting, Freezing, Frightening, Men, Nature, Wisdom

But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the incomparable pretties of Indian Mexico.

Based, Girl, Graves, Lie, Lying, Princess

The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be "supervised. "

Alternative, Nice, Sit, Sleep, Supervised, Vision

I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

America, Everybody, Realize, Realizing, Thieves

-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I'd roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity.

Dream, Eternity, Girl, Like, Spiritual

ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you

Ones, Want

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

People, Phone, Phones, Use, Wisdom

The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

Dog, Heaven, Like, Tree

Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

Day, Heaven, Kindness, Practice

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.

Blowing, Land, New York, River, Spring, York

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