My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
JACK KEROUACAll I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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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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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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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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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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