…and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
– Jack Kerouac
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- When you’ve understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can’t understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom. – Jack Kerouac
- Oh, I love, love, love women! I think women are wonderful! I love women! – Jack Kerouac
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- The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words. – Jack Kerouac
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- -¦of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth. – Jack Kerouac
- The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow. – Jack Kerouac
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- And I go home having lost her love. And write this book. – Jack Kerouac
- I clearly saw the skeleton underneathall this show of personalitywhat is left of a manand all his pride but bones? – Jack Kerouac
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- This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do. – Jack Kerouac
- …do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean. – Jack Kerouac
- Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else? – Jack Kerouac
- Soon I’ll find the right words, they’ll be very simple. – Jack Kerouac