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 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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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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It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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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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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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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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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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The only truth is music.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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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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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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