Jack Kerouac on goodness
Jack Kerouac81 quotes“Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac There’s wisdom in wine.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac The beauty of things must be that they end.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Pretty girls make graves.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac 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.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac 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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