This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
JACK KEROUACThe only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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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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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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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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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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All 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.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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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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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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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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