Jack Kerouac Quotes
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death.
Quotes to Explore
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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'It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneth inmense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for? - sleep.'
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
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Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul.
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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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Accept loss forever.
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I really hate to write.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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Believe in the holy contour of life
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.