QUOTES by Jack Kerouac
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"My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness."
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"Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world."
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"Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?"
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"This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do."
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"Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken."
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"We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and "looked "at each other for the last time."
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"They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see."
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"As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind."
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"But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?"
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"One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls."
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"So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being."
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"On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word."
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"Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go."
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"I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted."
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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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"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life"
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"Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain."
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"It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared."
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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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"Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars..."
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"I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility."
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"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
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"The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view"
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"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."
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"The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream."
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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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