Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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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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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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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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 closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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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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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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