1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

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    There are immeasurable star misty aeons of universes more numerous than the sands in all the galaxies, multiplied by a billion lightyears of multiplication, in fact if I were to go on you’d be scared and couldn’t comprehend and you’d despair so much you’d drop dead,′ that’s what he just about said in one of those sutras – -.

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    Life must be rich and full of loving – it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

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    I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who’d kill anybody who said something against his mother.

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    Whenever spring comes to New York I can’t stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I’ve got to go. So I went.

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    The cause of the world’s woe is birth, the cure of the world’s woe is a bent stick.

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    A peaceful sorrow at home is the best I’ll ever be able to offer the world, in the end, and so I told my desolation angels goodbye. A new life for me.

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    I’m going to write ceaselessly about the dignity of human beings no matter who and or what they are, and the less dignity a person has the fewer words I’ll use.

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