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“Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
“Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?”
“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.”
“The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.”
“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”
“Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.”
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Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.