Pretty girls make graves.
JACK KEROUACThe only truth is music.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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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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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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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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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
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I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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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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It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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