"What are you trying to do, Kerouac?" I'd ask myself in my … - Jack Kerouac

"What are you trying to do, Kerouac?" I'd ask myself in my sleepingbag at night, "trying to deny reality with all this Buddha stuff, ya jerk?" ... "Poor detailed immaculate incarnate fool, and you call yourself Self ... Take off your coat and crash wits." And I realized that all this Buddhism was a STRAIN at telling the untellable emptiness yet that nothing was truer, a perfect paradox.

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Jack Kerouac (12 March 1922 – 21 October 1969), born Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, was an American novelist, poet, and artist. He was a central figure among Beat Generation writers.

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Native Name: Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac

Alternative Names: Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac • Kerouac • Jean-Louis Kerouac

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