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?
JACK KEROUACI realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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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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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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 petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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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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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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Pretty girls make graves.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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