But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
JACK KEROUACNo fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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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 hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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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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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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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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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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