The only truth is music.
JACK KEROUACGreat things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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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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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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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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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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 had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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