Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
JACK KEROUACDon’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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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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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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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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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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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 hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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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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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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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 silence was an intense roar.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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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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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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