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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac 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.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac 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.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac For life is holy and every moment is precious.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac 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?
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac
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Arundhati RoyArundhati Roy Your flaws tell your story there is no need to hide them.
Samantha King HolmesSamantha King Holmes False stories used to affect me initially. But now, I’ve come to understand that if false stories are created, they are also forgotten in the long run.
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