My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
JACK KEROUACThe silence was an intense roar.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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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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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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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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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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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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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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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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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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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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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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You aren’t ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it–don’t plan anything, just go out and do it.
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