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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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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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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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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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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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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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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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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