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.
JACK KEROUACEverything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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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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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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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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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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