Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
JACK KEROUACPut down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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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 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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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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