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.
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 road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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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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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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You aren’t ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it–don’t plan anything, just go out and do it.
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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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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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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