While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
JACK KEROUACThis is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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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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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 promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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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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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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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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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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On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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