I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
JACK KEROUACThe only truth is music.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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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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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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All 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.
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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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All of life is a foreign country.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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