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.
JACK KEROUACYou 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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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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All of life is a foreign country.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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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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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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