My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
JACK KEROUACThe best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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 happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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The only truth is music.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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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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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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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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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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