Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
JACK KEROUACSo long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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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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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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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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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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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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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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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The silence was an intense roar.
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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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