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Jack Kerouac
(March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969 / Boston)
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Jack Kerouac Born Jean-Louis Kerouac, on March 12, 1922 in working-class Lowell, Massachusetts, Jack Kerouac was of French-Canadian decent. The youngest of three children, he was heartbroken when his older brother Gerard died of rheumatic fever at the age of nine. more >>
 
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But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who ...
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Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), U.S. author. On the Road, pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957). In an interview in Playboy, June 1959, Kerouac explained the origin of th...
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''It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.''
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Jack Kerouac (1922-1969), U.S. author. quoted in New York Journal-American (Dec. 8, 1960).
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Brooke Hippie (4/30/2006 10:00:00 AM)
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wow. amazing. i love kerouac. all the crazy ways i feel about life and living it up comes out in his poetry. yay. thank ya bunches ^_^
peace
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Uriah Hamilton (7/12/2005 7:45:00 AM)
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Jack Kerouac, the sad, sweet-hearted
modern day Li Po,
my second greatest hero
after Bob Dylan!

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