Jack Kerouac Short Quotes

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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

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Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.

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You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

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Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world

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Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.

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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

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In prose you make the paragraph. Every paragraph is a poem.

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Who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance?

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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

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The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.

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I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration

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I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

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Sociability is just a big smile, and a big smile is nothing but teeth.

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We are nothing. - Tomorrow we may be die. We are nothing. - You and me.

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That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

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Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

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It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

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The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

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I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...

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As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

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I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show

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Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

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Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?

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The only decent activity in the world [is] to pray for everyone, in solitude.

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