You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
JACK KEROUACSome of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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 had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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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 only truth is music.
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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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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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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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