Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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.
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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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All of life is a foreign country.
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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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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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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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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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There’s wisdom in wine.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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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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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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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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