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Jack Kerouac Inspirational Quotes (244)

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Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just talents.
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Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
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I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.
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Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.
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I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
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I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.
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LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.
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...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
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...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I like it because its ugly
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Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
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I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light
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To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
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I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
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So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
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All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
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And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.
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