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You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER

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Dream, Mean, Blood

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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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Way, Fantastic, Whole

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.119, Penguin

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the golden eternity is { }

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Golden, Eternity

Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.

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Night, California, Perfect

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.17, Penguin

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Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now so vast we can't communicate them anymore and if we tried it would take a million years and a billion books - Too late, too late, the history of everything we've seen together and separately has become a library in itself - The shelves pile higher - They're full of misty documents or documents of the Mist-.

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Book, Years, Play

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Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing her eyes. I promised her beautiful love. I gloated over her. Our stories were told; we subsided into silence and sweet anticipatory thoughts. It was as simple as that. You could have all your Peaches and Bettys and Marylous and Ritas and Camilles and Inezes in this world; this was my girl and my kind of girlsoul, and I told her that.

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Beautiful, Girl, Sweet

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I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like the Prophet who has walked across the land to bring the dark Word, and the only Word I had was 'Wow!

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Eye, Dark, Night

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.139, Penguin

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All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.

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Hangover, Heart, Sleep

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I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.

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Sleep, Forever, Forget

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.179, Penguin

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I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret self all the time when I don't feel strong, the sorrows of time and personality, and can therefore on all levels make it all the way with me

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Strong, Thinking, Self

Jack Kerouac (1972). “Visions of Cody”, London : André Deutsch

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Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed.

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Cat, Moon, Purring Cats

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beautiful insane in the rain

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Beautiful, Rain, Insane

Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.36, Grove Press

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Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love.

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New York, Tired, Giving

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

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I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.

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Love You, Care, Way

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.244, Penguin

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Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.

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Jealous, Writing, Way

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

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...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's told for companionship and to teach something religious, of religious reverence, about real life, in this real world which literature should (and here does) reflect.

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Religious, Real, Doe

Jack Kerouac (2007). “Satori in Paris and Pic”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is *crying*--He's crying for his mother and father and great brother and great friend, he's crying for help. (p.111)

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Mother, Brother, Father

Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.91, BookBaby

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Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.

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Past, People, Drunk

Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.33, Grove Press

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

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May, Tomorrow, Dies

Jack Kerouac (2012). “Tristessa (Annotated)”, p.24, BookBaby

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Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.

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Ocean, Heart, Feet

Jack Kerouac (2013). “Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)”, p.10, BookBaby

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The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from now till your hand is paralyzed, for THERE will be your work for GOD, since you can not work for God in other ways, and would not, & don't know how, or bend that way, from habit, & from talent in the use & signification & arrangement of the Word.

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Writing, Reflection, Hands

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...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes surely do prophesy and indicate the loveliest of souls.

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Eye, Soul, Lovely

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

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Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

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Water, Walking On Water, Walking

Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.169, Penguin

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All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who really matter. Love and hate are the same things, differently sifted through personal... pride, or what have you... personal pride or even just personal-ness.

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Hate, Pride, Soul

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

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Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the outer channel fluid belly waters. And if your cans are redhot and you can't hold them in your hands, just use good old railroad gloves, that's all.

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Happiness, Running, Beach

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.7, Penguin

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