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

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• Jack Kerouac:

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

• Jack Kerouac:

  Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

• Jack Kerouac:

  My witness is the empty sky.

• Jack Kerouac:

  Accept loss forever.

• Jack Kerouac:

  I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

• Jack Kerouac:

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

• Jack Kerouac:

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

• Jack Kerouac:

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

• Jack Kerouac:

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

• Jack Kerouac:

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