If you own a rug you own too much.
Jack Kerouac
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MICHAEL FINKEL Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.
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JACK KEROUAC Everything fell apart in me. How are things with you?
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HARRY YOU If you think too much, you will worry too much; if you worry too much, you will fear too much; if yo...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound exte...
PAUL THEROUX If someone is too tired to give you a smile, leave one of your own, because no one needs a smile as ...
UNKNOWN Camminavo nella sera piena di lillà con tutti i muscoli indolenziti in mezzo alle luci della 27a St...
JACK KEROUAC Il mondo mi deve un paio di cose.
JACK KEROUAC Learn how to be your own heroine, so you too can find your own hero.” Right, because why would you...
LIZA PALMER if God spared not His own Son, how much less will He spare you!
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON I'm confident in my own ability. If that wasn't the case you might as well pack it in now. I...
MICHAEL OWEN If you buy a song, you own it,
EDDY CUE If you think too much about playing an icon, it will immobilize you. You have to treat it like a fre...
ERICA DURANCE One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma ...
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GERALD NICOSIA Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy w...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON The too LESS is too MUCH if you know how to make it too MUCH;
the too MUCH is too LESS if you don’...
KAGABO BURANGA JACQUES I can't let you take the risk. I love you too much." -Schuyler
"Then you would rather see me bo...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.
O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, ...
FRANK O'HARA Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a li...
DONNA TARTT Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody ha...
D. J. HICKS Honestly, I feel you are poisoned if you read too much of the scientific literature because it makes...
ERIC BETZIG If you expect too much and do too little, you are bound for disappointment. If you talk too much and...
ALEKSANDR SEBRYAKOV if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you do not respect your own wishes, no one else will. You will simply attract people who disrespe...
VIRONIKA TUGALEVA If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have...
ROLLO MAY Give your children too much freedom and lose your own
RUSSIAN PROVERB Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own bea...
JALAL AD-DIN RUMI You can't do much better. He lets you run your own shop.
LORRY LOKEY If Jack Kerouac had set out to find a real bookstore in the suburbs, he would still be on the road, ...
MICHAEL WINERIP The whole town had instantly gone to bed; the only noise now was barking dogs. How could I ever slee...
JACK KEROUAC For the first four years of my life, while he lived, I was not Ti Jean Duluoz, I was Gerard, the wor...
JACK KEROUAC Pretty soon...do you realize there'll be so many additional childhoods and pasts with everybody writ...
JACK KEROUAC You have to work at identifying and maintaining and keeping abreast of the risk because it's being d...
EUGENE KIERNAN You don't own it if you owe it!
LANA RADOVIC If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own countr...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, then you will...
ROLLO MAY If you have a suspicion in your own breast, keep that suspicion in your own breast.
CHARLES DICKENS The desktop metaphor was invented because one, you were a stand-alone device, and two, you had to ma...
STEVE JOBS I just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, tha...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON You have to take your own bold approach, and if you do you will be rewarded with success.
Or c...
STEVEN MOFFAT There was also evidence of misbehavior backstage, ... Stubbed-out joints, copies of Jack Kerouac, a ...
DICK CAVETT The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E...
DAVID BOWIE Do not try to do too much with your own hands. Better the Arabs do it tolerably than you do it perfe...
T. E. LAWRENCE Bond investors want growth much like equity investors, and to the extent that too much austerity lea...
BILL GROSS If you express yourself too much. you're overacting; if you underplay it too much, it can come a...
BEN HARDY No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have you own way.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you'll forget ...
PAULO COELHO Judge my Silence ; If you do , you own me..
ANONYMOUS What you own is your own kingdomWhat you do is your own gloryWhat you love is your own powerWhat you...
NEIL PEART The time for a person to instantly interact with his own soul, inspect his own mind and introspect w...
ANUJ SOMANY I'm my own person. You can't generalise about people.
NAOMI SCOTT You do your own thing and you see if you survive.
RICKY GERVAIS If you live in America and you do not own your own business, you have given up your right to be free...
DR. TERRY LYLES I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs -- when I was 17 -- that I realized I was talki...
ALLEN GINSBERG But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the li...
DIANA KRALL If you are not able to express your own original energy and ideas, if you do not listen to your own ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I am not a librarian of my own work. It's a good thing not to be too involved with what you have...
MICK JAGGER You can't get spoiled if you do your own ironing.
MERYL STREEP If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
BEN JONSON Nobody can mislead you if you follow your own steps.......
PRABHA If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick.
BEN JONSON Nothing can harm you as much as your own thoughts unguarded.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
TED WILLIAMS You can't get too much winter in the winter.
ROBERT FROST You can't know too much, but you can say too much.
CALVIN COOLIDGE I am a steering of my life and so are you a steering of your own life too. The point is, learn to mi...
MORAKENG SEKGOKA The investment in knowledge brings about good interest if you can afford it. When you are too poor, ...
MARIANA FULGER You’re too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we’ll have to send some of the guards wi...
KIERA CASS I cannot afford to lose you, too"
"You cannot lose something you do not own. Take me with you
KIERSTEN WHITE I prayed and asked God to remove the Jack out of my box, and not only did he remove the Jack, but he...
SUSIE L HILL No matter how much you love someone, you still want to have your own way.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK My own style is one of not much effort.
FREEMA AGYEMAN If you own your own home free and clear, people will often refer to you as a fool. All that money si...
ANTHONY HSIEH If you want to Rich ...own your own Home and your own Business. Be FREE to pursue life in your own w...
LORRIN L. LEE You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much m...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking...
ALLEN GINSBERG You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!
DAN AYKROYD Nay, but Jack, such eyes! such eyes! so innocently wild! so bashfully irresolute! Not a glance but s...
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN A teacher can make their own class up if they want, too.
JOY BRISIGHELLA Rugs needs smooth and gentle cleaning, If you want your Rug shines like a new Rug take our services ...
CHEM MASTER If you share your friend's crime, you make it your own
LATIN PROVERB If you own this story you get to write the ending.
BRENé BROWN If you are gonna wear it, you need to own it.
KELLY ST. CLARE If you can't fix it, Jack, you gotta stand it.
ENNIS DEL MAR For the spouse of someone in the service, you are your own provider, your own lover, you own best fr...
JESSY SCHRAM If you are conscious of your own dreams, nobody can confuse you with their own goals. Wake up and li...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If you are working with no vision to be own your own boss, you are no different from people who are ...
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess ...
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JACK KEROUAC Accept loss forever.
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JACK KEROUAC As you get older, you get more... genealogical.
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JACK KEROUAC Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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JACK KEROUAC All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC My witness is the empty sky.
JACK KEROUAC I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
JACK KEROUAC I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
JACK KEROUAC It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose b...
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JACK KEROUAC It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.
JACK KEROUAC Il pouvait à peine placer un mot tellement ça l'excitait de vivre.
JACK KEROUAC Paradise!' he screamed. 'The one and only indispensable Paradise.
JACK KEROUAC What's Your Road, Man?
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JACK KEROUAC My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
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JACK KEROUAC Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.
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JACK KEROUAC This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
JACK KEROUAC Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
JACK KEROUAC Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
JACK KEROUAC Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened t...
JACK KEROUAC Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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JACK KEROUAC Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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JACK KEROUAC One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
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JACK KEROUAC I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
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JACK KEROUAC So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry
JACK KEROUAC Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun t...
JACK KEROUAC I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll ru...
JACK KEROUAC Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!.
JACK KEROUAC I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transm...
JACK KEROUAC I was just looking at the jukebox. Just playing records. She said, You want to play with me?
I sa...
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JACK KEROUAC There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?
JACK KEROUAC If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by sca...
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JACK KEROUAC A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest.
If you're not haun...
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JACK KEROUAC Besides which, she would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and...
JACK KEROUAC Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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JACK KEROUAC There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.
JACK KEROUAC Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away...
JACK KEROUAC What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see ...
JACK KEROUAC Everything is all right forever and forever and forever.
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JACK KEROUAC Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...
But you'll miss all tha...
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JACK KEROUAC It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.
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JACK KEROUAC the road is life
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JACK KEROUAC Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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JACK KEROUAC Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and yo...
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JACK KEROUAC Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or ra...
JACK KEROUAC What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
JACK KEROUAC I was going to be left alone on my butt at the other end of the continent. But why think about that ...
JACK KEROUAC ...and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, ...
JACK KEROUAC Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine...
JACK KEROUAC Buds in the snow
—the deadly fight
between two birds
JACK KEROUAC The other man, just as
lonesome as I am
In this empty universe
JACK KEROUAC Hitch hiked a thousand
miles and brought
You wine
JACK KEROUAC November the seventh
The last
Faint cricket
JACK KEROUAC They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past...
JACK KEROUAC Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going...
JACK KEROUAC Because he was always tremendously generated towards complete relationship with his women to the poi...
JACK KEROUAC ...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in...
JACK KEROUAC Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.
JACK KEROUAC I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.
JACK KEROUAC What is the universe
but a lot of waves
And a craving desire
is a wave…
JACK KEROUAC Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.
JACK KEROUAC And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they...
JACK KEROUAC ...the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fi...
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JACK KEROUAC I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.
JACK KEROUAC As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
JACK KEROUAC Houses are full of things that gather dust
JACK KEROUAC beautiful insane
in the rain
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JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
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JACK KEROUAC My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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JACK KEROUAC Get married and have halfbreed babies, manuscripts, home¬spun blankets and mother’s milk on your ...
JACK KEROUAC Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
JACK KEROUAC I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all
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JACK KEROUAC Rocks are space, and space is illusion.
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JACK KEROUAC Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
JACK KEROUAC It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.
JACK KEROUAC i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosi...
JACK KEROUAC I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.
JACK KEROUAC Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?
JACK KEROUAC I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wan...
JACK KEROUAC The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.
JACK KEROUAC my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially free...
JACK KEROUAC I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wanderin...
JACK KEROUAC The silence was an intense roar.
JACK KEROUAC Pretty girls make graves
JACK KEROUAC Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glor...
JACK KEROUAC colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds it...
JACK KEROUAC The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
JACK KEROUAC Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our...
JACK KEROUAC Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
JACK KEROUAC Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
JACK KEROUAC I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, th...
JACK KEROUAC It all ends in tears anyway.
JACK KEROUAC At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver...
JACK KEROUAC At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
JACK KEROUAC Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the Spirit of the Mountain was thinking, and loo...
JACK KEROUAC It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
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JACK KEROUAC ...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact ...
JACK KEROUAC Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your...
JACK KEROUAC For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze...
JACK KEROUAC Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana ...
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JACK KEROUAC Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
JACK KEROUAC And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was th...
JACK KEROUAC I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
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JACK KEROUAC What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
I don't k...
JACK KEROUAC We agreed to love each other madly.
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JACK KEROUAC So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, ...
JACK KEROUAC But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wa...
JACK KEROUAC Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't...
JACK KEROUAC Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th...
JACK KEROUAC And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles fol...
JACK KEROUAC The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w...
JACK KEROUAC ...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it w...
JACK KEROUAC ...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ...
JACK KEROUAC ...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I ...
JACK KEROUAC I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’...
JACK KEROUAC The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is ...
JACK KEROUAC I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA ...
JACK KEROUAC He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows st...
JACK KEROUAC And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show...
JACK KEROUAC Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by ...
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