I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
JACK KEROUACWhen you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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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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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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 want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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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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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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