No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
JACK KEROUACThere was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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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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It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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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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The only truth is music.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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