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Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much.

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Happens

Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

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Epic, Life Is, Inconsequential

Jack Kerouac (1995). “Desolation Angels”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view

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Wisdom, Teacher, Views

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Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

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Drinking, Drunk, Enjoy Life

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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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Clouds, Utah, Sky

Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.

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Country, Night, Disappear

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.164, Penguin

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I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

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Wisdom, Caring, Differences

Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.

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Wisdom, Eye, Tears

Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.92, Penguin

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Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?

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Wake Up, Beat Generation

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.199, Penguin

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Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.

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Writing, Night, Giving

Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

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Silence, World, Lessons

Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

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It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.

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Girl, Believe, Mean

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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

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Wisdom, Failure, Passion

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Life is life, and kind is kind

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Kind, Life Is

Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.129, Penguin

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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

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Wisdom, Race, Big Sur

Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.133, BookBaby

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Bein Crazy is the least of my worries.

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Crazy, Worry

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I petted the dogs who didn't argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters.

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Dog, Arguing, God Love

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.145, Penguin

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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

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Wisdom, Silence, Dharma Bums

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Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

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Dream, Silence, Attention

Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.57, City Lights Books

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I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all.

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Wisdom, Giving Up, Yelling

Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

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4th Of July, Thinking, America

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.165, Penguin

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

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Wisdom, Peace, Kindness

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.134, Penguin

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I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.

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Dream, Wisdom, Morning

Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road”, p.289, Penguin UK

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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.

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Dream, Wisdom, Art

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On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.

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Wisdom, Stars, Spring

Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.170, BookBaby

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Born: March 12, 1922
Died: October 21, 1969
Occupation: Novelist
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