I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
JACK KEROUACPretty girls make graves.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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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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Pretty girls make graves.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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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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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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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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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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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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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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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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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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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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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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