I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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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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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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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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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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