Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
JACK KEROUACYou can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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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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There’s wisdom in wine.
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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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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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I 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.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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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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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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