Jack Kerouac

(1922–1969) Prose Writer United States

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Jack Kerouac was a prose writer from the United States, best known for On The Road.

Quick Facts About Jack Kerouac

Born: March 12, 1922
Died: October 21, 1969
Nationality: United States
Profession: Prose Writer
Notable works: On The Road
Known for: Desolation Angels, On the Road, The Dharma Bums, The Subterraneans, Big Sur
Spouse: Joan Haverty Kerouac

About Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac, born Jean‑Louis Lebris de Kérouac, was an American novelist and poet who helped start the Beat Generation with William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.

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“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class nonidentity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus…

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Campus

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“In the hall itself the din of the music - for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what…

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Jukebox

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“So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies…

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Children

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“And it's finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for "cities" at last, you dream of long gray journeys to…

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Health

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“Japhy and I were kind of outlandish-looking on the campus in our old clothes in fact Japhy was considered an eccentric around…

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Education

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At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing…

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I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one…

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Art

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“I visualized myself at Norma's house, stretched out on her couch, my eyes closed, and she at bthe paino playing a powerful…

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It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all…

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“When daybreak came we were zooming through New Jersey with the great cloud of Metropolitan New York rising before us in the…

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Daybreak

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Then it's goodbye, Sangsara for me Besides, girls aren't as good as they look And Samadhi is better than you think When…

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Angel

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“I wanted to get me a full pack complete with everything necessary to sleep, shelter, eat, cook, in fact a regular kitchen…

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“And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was a complete…

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Death

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“I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember especially because the transitions from life to…

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Death

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“I've got my full rucksack pack and it's spring, I'm going to go Southwest to the dry land, to the long lone…

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“Two keen minds that they are, they took to each other at the drop of a hat. Two piercing eyes glanced into…

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