I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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The only truth is music.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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On 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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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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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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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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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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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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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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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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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