My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
JACK KEROUACHe had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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