I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
JACK KEROUACYou’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
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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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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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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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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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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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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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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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