Jack Kerouac Quotes
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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The prevailing - and foolish - attitude is that a good manager can be a good manager anywhere, with no special knowledge of the production process he's managing. A man with a financial background may know nothing about manufacturing shoes or cars, but he's put in charge anyway.
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Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.
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I'm terrified I'm about to die, or that all the people I love are about to die, every second of every day.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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Many of the best firms historically in venture capital have been multi-sector.
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Just to be fighting for the belt, I was already happy. No pressure at all.
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
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If you want India to lower tariffs and facilitate more free trade, then I think Indian producers also have a right to enter the European market.
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I'm attracted to heartbreakers.
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I was living as a young single mom. I was 19 when I was divorced, and my daughter was a year old, and I waited tables here three to four nights a week for several years while I was trying to support myself and my daughter and the day I got that acceptance at Harvard Law School was an unforgettable day.
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I hate to hear 'Less is more.' It's a crock of crap.
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I tend to wear all black. I like feeling sexy, feminine, effortless, and real.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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I eat a lot of chocolate.
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Movies are really hard to make. You put a lot of work into them, and you want people to see them.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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What really matters is what's on the inside.
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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I don't really consider myself to be famous.
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I don't really go out at all.
