You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
JACK KEROUACIt’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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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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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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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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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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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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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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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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