Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
JACK KEROUACYou are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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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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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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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
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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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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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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 promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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