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Jack Kerouac Inspirational Quotes (244)

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and the stars were icicles of mockery
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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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The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.
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The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.
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Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??
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My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
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Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.
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Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.
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I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
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I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
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What do you want out of life? I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.
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I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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This was really the way my whole road experience began, and the things that were to come are too fantastic not to tell.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
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Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
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And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!
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but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too
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