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.
JACK KEROUACI 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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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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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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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 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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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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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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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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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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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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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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