Jack Kerouac Quotes

For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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Holy Life Moments Precious
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Accomplishment Greatness Opinion Popular
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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People Phone Poetry
Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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Believe Myself True Writing
Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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Greatness Love Myself
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Myself Right Simplicity Word
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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Compassionate Cruelty God Holy Personality Sea Universe
You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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Equality Idol Inspirational Yourself
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
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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People River Separate Start Yourself
I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Crazy Hands Myself Stars
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Confusion Myself Offering
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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Adventure Blessing Life Sorry Travel
While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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Darkness Enlightenment Light True Wisdom
There’s wisdom in wine.
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One Liner Wine Wisdom
Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Dangerous Love Pain Reality Yourself
Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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Goodness Life Love Rich
The beauty of things must be that they end.
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Beautiful Deep End Wisdom
Pretty girls make graves.
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Girl Grave One Liner Pretty Woman
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Feeling Guilty Human Myself Race
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
No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Dignity Experience Fear Knowledge Language Shame Yourself
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
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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Money Myself Possible Understand Work
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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Enjoyment Live Myself Nature Need Solitude Stop Thinking
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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Choice Crazy Myself Right World
You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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Escape Live World Yourself

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