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 KEROUACGreat things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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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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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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The only truth is music.
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