My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
JACK KEROUACWhat’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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 saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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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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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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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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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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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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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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