Jack Kerouac Quotes

Sincerity seems to be a problem today. I'd rather be true and hated than be false and fool people.

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it.

I don't want to try to sell myself or portray something that I'm not.

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

I decided I am not going to say things I do not mean anymore.

I try not to fake anything.

If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'

The truth just happens - lies take time to make.

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie: a fault which needs it most, grows two thereby.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

I think, to me, reality is better than being fake.

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

I love the truth. Tell the truth and live the truth, because we've seen enough lies and look what it's doing.

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.

Always be sincere, even when you don't mean it.

Put away from you a dissembling mouth.

What is earnest is not always the truth.

Have you weaned yourself of your off-putting proclivity for not telling the truth/

I really think that people never go wrong by telling the truth.