Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
JACK KEROUACSomething great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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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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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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 closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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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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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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