You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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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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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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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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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
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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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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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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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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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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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On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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