Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
JACK KEROUACIf you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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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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There’s wisdom in wine.
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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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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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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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