Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
JACK KEROUACBe in love with your life, every detail of it.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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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 best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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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.
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I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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