I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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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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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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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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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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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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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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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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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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