I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
JACK KEROUACHe had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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You aren’t ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it–don’t plan anything, just go out and do it.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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