Believe in the holy contour of life.
JACK KEROUACDon’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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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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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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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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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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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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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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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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