Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
JACK KEROUACMy aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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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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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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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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The only truth is music.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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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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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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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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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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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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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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