Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
JACK KEROUACOn 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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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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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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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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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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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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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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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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 came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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