Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
JACK KEROUACYou’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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You aren’t ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it–don’t plan anything, just go out and do it.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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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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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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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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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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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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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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