On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
JACK KEROUACAll 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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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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The only truth is music.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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