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Own Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just 'talents.'…
- Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past…
- I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of…
- ...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes…
- I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
- I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night,…
- They build their own Hells.
- I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar,…
- And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological…
- 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…
- Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
- I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own…
- If you own a rug you own too much.
- Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
- Something that you feel will find its own form.
- I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.
- I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead,…
- 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…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov