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Great Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs…
- And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains. I had to…
- Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
- 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,…
- Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream
- The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.
- And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its…
- It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead…
- The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious…
- But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is *crying*--He's crying for…
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- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
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- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
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