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Jack Kerouac Inspirational Quotes (244)

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A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.
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At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
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And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.
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When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
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As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
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My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.
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What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.
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What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
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I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.
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Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.
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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.
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Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
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We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.
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and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?
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What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.
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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach.
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Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.
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