Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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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 happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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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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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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The silence was an intense roar.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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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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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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