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Them Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark…
- The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault,
- At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as…
- My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
- 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,…
- Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
- Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone…
- You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money…
- Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
- Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now…
- Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They…
- I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist…
- Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.
- But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless…
- Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that…
- Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.
- I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest,…
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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