Jack Kerouac Quotes

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Jack Kerouac

• Crime
• Fault
• Indifference

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• Stress is the reason for crime and all other kinds of frustration. To relieve it will eliminate everything else.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Stress
  • Crime
  • Frustration

• I'm a perfectionist to a fault.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Fault
  • Perfectionist

• When an accident or a crime happens, there's a period of time before the yellow tape goes up, before the official response becomes formalized. That allows the nightcrawlers to get very close.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Up
  • Time
  • Period

• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Like
  • Crime
  • Plague

• Ottawa is a hot spot of Canadian crime writing, with perhaps the greatest concentration of active, involved, published crime writers anywhere.

  

  Vicki Delany
  • Writing
  • Crime
  • Greatest

• The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair.

  

  J. Edgar Hoover
  • High
  • Crime
  • Chair

• Oftentimes, in fact I think this is to my fault, I look at usually scripts as a whole. I should probably pay more attention to the character that I'm going to play and what they do.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Character
  • Think
  • Attention

• I love my beauty. It's not my fault.

  

  Valentino Garavani
  • Love
  • Beauty
  • Fault

• Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • True
  • Problem
  • Improvement

• I think 'In The Heat Of The Night' was one of the most influential films on me. Looking back now, I can see how influential it was on my screenwriting because here you have what looks to be a crime procedural, and it's actually a study in race and loneliness, and a perception of an era.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Study
  • Crime
  • Loneliness

• In 'Shaun of the Dead,' it's not Shaun's fault that there's a zombie apocalypse - he just has to get through the day.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Day
  • Dead
  • Fault

• A crime is like a crack in reality, and it is the author's role to explore those cracks. As a writer, I like to see how they impinge on people.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • People
  • Reality
  • Author

• To make crime unprofitable, let the government run it.

  

  Irene Peter
  • Government
  • Crime
  • Run

• It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Work
  • Victim
  • Fault

• What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Crime
  • Personal
  • Signature

• Many who resort to crime ultimately can't read or write.

  

  Wally Amos
  • Write
  • Crime
  • Resort

• That's why I love crime novels so much: When I write a crime novel, the conflict is built in.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Write
  • Crime
  • Conflict

• The fault lines are shifting from the boundaries of nations into the web of our societies and the streets of our cities. And, terrorism and extremism are a global force that are larger than their changing names, groups, territories and targets.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Changing
  • Terrorism
  • Fault

• Private appropriation of the Earth’s surface, the natural resources, and the means of life is nothing less a crime than a crime against humanity, but the comparative few who are beneficiaries of this iniquitous social arrangement, far from being viewed as criminals meriting punishment, are the exalted rulers of society, and the people they exploit gladly render them homage and obeisance.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Humanity
  • Crime
  • Resources

• Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Comedy
  • Laughing
  • Grieving

• So long as you believe that man is essentially evil in nature, and a more vicious doctrine was never promulgated, it follows that he is often going to need to have his ears slapped back, and who should do this but the clergy?

  

  Anne Roe
  • Nature
  • Man
  • Evil

• You cannot have man legislating and playing God in Parliament, and at the same time believe that Allah is the only legislator.

  

  Anjem Choudary
  • God
  • Parliament
  • Legislator

• The modern media environment is so overrun with bullshit and static and people trying to sell you stupid crap. It makes you want to bite yourself.

  

  Brad Listi
  • Environment
  • Crap
  • Bite

• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Crime
  • Fault
  • Indifference