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.
JACK KEROUACI didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
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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 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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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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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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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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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 petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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