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“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.”

Letter to Ed White (5 July 1950) as published in The Missouri Review, Vol. XVII, No. 3, 1994, page 137, and also quoted in Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster (1996) by Steve Turner, p. 117

“If you own a rug you own too much.”

This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
Misattributed

“Nothing ever happened - Not even this”

Source: Big Sur

“I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion”

Variant: I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.
Source: On the Road

“Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.”

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

“cliches are truisms and all truisms are true”

Variant: Clichés are truisms and all truisms are true
Source: Big Sur

“Life is life, and kind is kind”

Source: On the Road