I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
JACK KEROUACSome of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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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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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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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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Pretty girls make graves.
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