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The Unphotographable: Jack Kerouac’s Soaring Diary Entry About Self-Understanding and the Elemental Vastness of the Windblown World

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Love, Kindness, and the Song of the Universe: The Night Jack Kerouac Kept a Young Woman from Taking Her Own Life

“I felt his pain deeply, and his beauty, and his knowledge.”

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Are Writers Born or Made? Jack Kerouac on the Crucial Difference Between Talent and Genius

“Genius gives birth, talent delivers.”

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Jack Kerouac on Kindness, the Self Illusion, and the “Golden Eternity”

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

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From Jack Kerouac to Ayn Rand: Iconic Writers on Symbolism, 1963

A Rorschach Test with a spine, or what the art of fluid writing has to do with salt.

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July 3, 1947: The Young Jack Kerouac Coins “Beat” While Grieving His Father

“My conscience of life and eternity is not a mistake, or a loneliness, or a foolishness — but a warm dear love of our poor predicament.”

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Jack Kerouac on How to Meditate

An intoxicating homage to the ancient practice that milks the brain’s “good glad fluid.”

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The Last Hotel: Patti Smith Sets Jack Kerouac to Song

Two great talents at the intersection of reality and dream.

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Jack Kerouac’s List of 30 Beliefs and Techniques for Writing and Life

“No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge.”

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Writing Without Words: Visualizing Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road”

Literature as a canvas, a book as a living organism, and rhythm as a texture.

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Search results for “jack kerouac”

“I felt his pain deeply, and his beauty, and his knowledge.”

“Genius gives birth, talent delivers.”

“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.”

A Rorschach Test with a spine, or what the art of fluid writing has to do with salt.

“My conscience of life and eternity is not a mistake, or a loneliness, or a foolishness — but a warm dear love of our poor predicament.”

An intoxicating homage to the ancient practice that milks the brain’s “good glad fluid.”

Two great talents at the intersection of reality and dream.

“No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge.”

Literature as a canvas, a book as a living organism, and rhythm as a texture.

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