I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.

About Jack Kerouac

Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.

More quotations from Jack Kerouac

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

—Jack Kerouac

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

—Jack Kerouac

I'm not going to quit. Why should I quit? This country is worth fighting for.

—Jack Kerouac

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Do you know there's a road that goes down to Mexico and all the way to Panama? And maybe all the way to the bottom of South America where the Indians are seven feet tall and eat cocaine on the mountainside? Yes! You and I, Sal, we'd dig the whole world with a car like this because, man, the road must eventually lead to the whole world. Ain't nowhere else it can go — right?

—Jack Kerouac

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

—Jack Kerouac

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How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

—Anne Frank

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There is not one world for man and one for animals; they are part of the same one and lead parallel lives.

—Rigoberta Menchú

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The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.

—George Eliot

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The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.

—Daniel Webster

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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. But I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

—E. B. White

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