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I know who the great poets are.

~Jack Kerouac

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All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.

~Jack Kerouac

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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.

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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

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I don't really go out at all.

~Jack Kerouac

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I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

~Jack Kerouac

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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

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I really hate to write.

~Jack Kerouac

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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: March 12th, 1922

Died: October 21st, 1969

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