You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
JACK KEROUACSo 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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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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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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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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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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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 only truth is music.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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