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.
JACK KEROUACPractice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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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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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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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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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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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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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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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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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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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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