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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Accept loss forever.
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
All of life is a foreign country.
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.... (more Jack Kerouac quotes)
His last marriage was to Stella Sampas, the sister of his friend and writing mentor Sammy Sampas (who died at Anzio during World War II). She had waited more than twenty years in their hometown (Lowell MA) for Jack to come back for her.
Kerouac researched his family history, turning up both a family crest and the motto "Love, Work and Suffer". According to Barry Miles' 1999 biography "King of the Beats", Kerouac claimed that his family was of ari... (more Jack Kerouac trivia)
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