Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
JACK KEROUACI 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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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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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 saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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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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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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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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