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.
JACK KEROUACLife must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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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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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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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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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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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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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It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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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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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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