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Jack Kerouac
American
Novelist
About the author
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Dream
#Mankind
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Popular
#Opinion
#Yield
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Nothing
#World
#End
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Nothing
#Confusion
Accept loss forever.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Loss
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,
American
Novelist
#Time
#Heart
#World
#Pain
#Direction
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Men
#Land
All of life is a foreign country.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Country
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,
American
Novelist
#Theories
#Fault
You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Old
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Car
#Night
#America
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Road
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Want
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,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Hope
#Man
#Consciousness
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Eye
#Stars
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Crime
#Fault
#Moderation
#Indifference
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Failure
#Control
#Fault
My witness is the empty sky.
Jack Kerouac,
American
Novelist
#Sky
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,
American
Novelist
#Respect
#Sorrow
#Dogs
#Mankind
#Humility
#Gods