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.
JACK KEROUACWhile looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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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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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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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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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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 road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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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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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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 petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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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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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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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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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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