The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
JACK KEROUACI came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
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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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