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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.

Jack Kerouac

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Accomplishment Greatness Opinion Popular
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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Build Empty Freedom Glow Life Myself Page Power
Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Dangerous Love Pain Reality Yourself
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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Death Give Up Holy Laughter Myself Promise World
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Control Failure Mistake Myself Passion
You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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Escape Live World Yourself
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Behind Inspirational Myself Road
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.
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Bright Day Light Need Photography Rain Sun
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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Borrow Life Live Worth Yourself
Pretty girls make graves.
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Girl Grave One Liner Pretty Woman
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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Flame Forever Light Myself Pretend Time
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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Act Cry Feeling World Yourself
Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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Soul Wait Yourself
So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Death Easy End Serious Start Yourself
There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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End Leaving Talk
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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Heaven Kindness Practice Yourself

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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