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.
JACK KEROUACMy fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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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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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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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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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