My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
JACK KEROUACEverything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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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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There’s wisdom in wine.
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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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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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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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