I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so … - Jack Kerouac

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When I was a teenager, I was trying to please people. I kept changing who I was to please the people I was with. And so once I just decided I wasn't going to do that anymore. I was going to live my life to please God. And so from that day to this, that's been my aim. Some people don't understand, but you can't please everybody anyway.

Jack Kerouac

I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

Art, Day, Deleting, Feelings, Speculation, Writing

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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.

Give, Giving, Hope, Life, Men, Wisdom

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

Hippie, Mad, People, Talk, Yawning

Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.

Day, Dream, Good Night, Goodnight, Make, True

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

Belief, Deep, Silly, Understand, Want

What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else.

Earth, Mean, Men, Sitting, Stars, Under