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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Jack Kerouac

Dreams, Human, Together

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac

Great, Opinion, Popular

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac

Nothing, Confusion, Anybody

A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Jack Kerouac

Time, Pain, Girl

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, but that great consciousness of life.
Jack Kerouac

Life, Great, Hope

Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
Jack Kerouac

Respect, Long, Humility

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack Kerouac

Failure, Control, Fault

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Jack Kerouac

Life, Stars, Maybe

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Jack Kerouac

Crime, Fault, Moderation

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
Jack Kerouac

Life, Again, Matter

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
Jack Kerouac

Become, Offer, Secretly

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
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Car, Night, America

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
Jack Kerouac

End, Nothing, Means

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Jack Kerouac

Men, Best, Land

It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
Jack Kerouac

Found, Fault, Elements

Accept loss forever.
Jack Kerouac

Accept, Forever, Loss

My witness is the empty sky.
Jack Kerouac

Sky, Empty, Witness

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Jack Kerouac

Amazing, Yourself, Write

All of life is a foreign country.
Jack Kerouac

Life, Country, Foreign

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
Jack Kerouac

Old, Teach, Tune

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: March 12, 1922

Died: October 21, 1969

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