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Guest Post : The Best Life Advice from Jack Kerouac

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The Best Life Advice from Jack Kerouac Today's interesting article comes from Emily Temple at http://flavorwire.com/268379/the-best-life-advice-from-jack-kerouac?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Day%201%20%28Monday%29&utm_campaign=Unified%20Mailer#1 Today would have been legendary beat writer Jack Kerouac’s 90th birthday, had he not passed away at the age of 47 due to cirrhosis. The de facto leader and most famous member of the Beat movement, Kerouac’s writings and ideas influenced an entire generation, and his poetry, novels, and letters continue to inspire people all over the world today. Though he had his own failings, the man’s writing is rich with bits of advice, Buddhism-tinged musings, and pithy observations about the nature of the world, and whether they all be wise or not, we’ve collected some of these to share with you on his birthday. After all, we could all do a lot worse than to emulate the idealistic, passionate Jack Kerouac. “One man prac...