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Meanwhile I walk in the road at night, in utter darkness, and no one will help me but my own mad self. I want to communicate with Dostoevsky in heaven, and ask old Melville if he's still discouraged, and Wolfe why he let himself die at 38. I don't want to give up. I promise I shall never give up, and that'll die yelling and laughing. And that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all. This way I'll really find out something in time.

Time to write, I guess.

Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

Happy 100th, love.

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Happy 100th Birthday in the afterlife to Jack Kerouac!

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Celebrating Jack Kerouac’s 100 birthday !

source : Kerouac Estate

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Celebrating Jack Kerouac’s 100 birthday !

source : Kerouac Estate

#Jack Kerouac #Beat Generation #the gang

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Celebrating Jack Kerouac’s 100 birthday ! 

source : Kerouac Estate

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Articles - Celebrating Jack Kerouac’s 100 birthday !

- Wbur : Celebrating Jack Kerouac's 100th birthday: How the Beat author resonates today

- Axios : Jack Kerouac house plans 100th birthday celebration

- KQED : On Jack Kerouac’s Centennial, Writers of Color Examine His Complicated Legacy

- USnews : Kerouac Still Celebrated in St. Pete on 100th Birthday

- lowellcelebrateskerouac : Jack Kerouac Centennial Birthday Event Schedule – This March 2022

- Catalyst : Jack Kerouac’s 100th birthday celebration begins today

- tampabay : For Jack Kerouac’s 100th birthday, we remember his St. Petersburg years

source photo : jackkerouacfoundation.org

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Celebrating Jack Kerouac’s 100 birthday !

source : Kerouac Estate

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Jack Kerouac Centennial Birthday Event Schedule

THE JACK KEROUAC ESTATE AND KEROUAC @ 100 COMMITTEE SHARE SCHEDULE OF EVENTS FOR CENTENNIAL BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FOR FAMED NOVELIST, WRITER, POET AND ARTIST JACK KEROUAC

TAKING PLACE IN HIS LOWELL, MA HOMETOWN STARTING IN MARCH

Events to include return of original ‘On the Road’ scroll on loan from the Jim Irsay Collection, guided bus tours, musical events, readings, art galleries & more.

To mark the centennial birthday anniversary of world-renowned “Beat Generation” pioneer, novelist, writer, poet and artist JACK KEROUAC, THE JACK KEROUAC ESTATE and the Kerouac @ 100 Committee have planned an array of events and happenings to take place in his Lowell, MA hometown starting in his birth month of March. See a full list of happenings and details below.

“March 12th, 2022 will be the 100th anniversary of the birth of Lowell, Massachusetts’ favorite native son, Jack Kerouac, and folks the world over are weighing in on the enduring legacy of his work,” states Jim Sampas, Literary Executor of the Estate of Jack Kerouac.

“The celebration of his centennial this March in his hometown will include important artifacts, such as an exhibit of the original ‘On the Road’ scroll manuscript, and for the first time ever in one place, all the photographs of Kerouac taken by one of his dearest friends, Allen Ginsberg.

There will be readings, film screenings, and musical performances, all paying tribute to one of the most important authors of our time, and the versatility and openness of Kerouac’s work.”

Source 

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The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not.

William S. Burroughs, Junkie (via quotespile)

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Jack’s backpack and typewriter

#~ inspired

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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

Jack Kerouac (via gold-in-the-cracks)

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(from left to right) Alice Neel, Jack Kerouac talking to Delphine Seyrig, Gregory Corso - after party for pull my daisy 

© 1959, NYC, photo by John Cohen 

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The name Duluoz was Jack's Frenchification of Dalouas, a name he had come accross at the Lowell Sun. It happened to belong to a large and prominent Greek family, but with its three syllables and its dominant oo sound, it rang in Jack's ear like the Breton Kerouac and thus became the name for his fictional alter ego. He would use it over and over again throughout his career as a writer. He would have called himself Jack Duluoz in all his books if he had ever been able to realize his dream of conforming all the names in them and publishing them as one long saga of his life

The voice is all by Joyce JOHNSON 

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“I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?”

— Jack Kerouac

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A sociable smile is nothing but teeth.

Jack Kerouac, Desolation Angels (via quotespile)

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“ He was like a floppy fur wrap around my wrist, I just twist him around my wrist or drape him and he just purred and purred and even when he got big I still held him that way, I could even hold that big cat in both hands with my arms outstretched right over my head and he’d just purr, he had complete confidence in me - and when I'd left New York to come to my retreat in the woods I’d carefully kissed him and instructed him to wait for me ‘Attends pour mue kitigingoo’ - but my mother said in the letter he had died the night after I left”. 

Jack KEROUAC, Big Sur 

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He  [G.J. Apostolos] had a touch of the quality Jack would later admiringly call "madness" when he found it in men like Neal Cassady or Allen Ginsberg - some extravagant, heedless abandon to the moment that could light up the world like "Roman candles", as he put it in On the road. It was something Jack always felt he lacked himself. Although shy and deeply introvert, he was always more than willing to be carried along by the madness of others

The voice is all (the lonely victory of Jack Kerouac) by Joyce Johnson 

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