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.
JACK KEROUACYou 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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