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Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Type: Novelist Quotes Category: American Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: March 12, 1922 Date of Death: October 21, 1969 Nationality: American Find on Amazon: Jack Kerouac Related Authors: Ernest Hemingway Richard Bach Gore Vidal Anne Rice William Faulkner Herman Melville Toni Morrison Will Thomas |
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Jack Kerouac Accept loss forever. Jack Kerouac All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. Jack Kerouac All of life is a foreign country. Jack Kerouac All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land. Jack Kerouac Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. Jack Kerouac Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. Jack Kerouac I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. Jack Kerouac 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. Jack Kerouac If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. Jack Kerouac It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. Jack Kerouac 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. Jack Kerouac Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. Jack Kerouac My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. Jack Kerouac My witness is the empty sky. Jack Kerouac Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken. Jack Kerouac Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. Jack Kerouac Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? Jack Kerouac Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. Jack Kerouac You can't teach the old maestro a new tune. Jack Kerouac |
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