The beauty of things must be that they end.
JACK KEROUACPut down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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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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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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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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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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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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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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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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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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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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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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