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Say Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- 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…
- the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of…
- As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed…
- If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with…
- In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the…
- You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean…
- But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards…
- It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid…
- You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere…
- On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it…
- In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely…
- The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along,…
- If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?
- It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that…
- ...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say…
- And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches…
- 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…
- I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very…
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- I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being… — Neil Armstrong
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- Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. — Sholem Asch
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