American - Novelist | March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
Jack Kerouac
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I really hate to write.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
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I don't really go out at all.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.
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Accept loss forever.
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