But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
JACK KEROUACBecause in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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.
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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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.
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Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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