Jack Kerouac on people
Jack Kerouac81 quotes“Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac The only truth is music.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac 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.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac 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.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac
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M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I breathe in the first glimmers of freedom – it tastes of sweet hopefulness.
Alma-May NoaAlma-May Noa Don’t let this dissipate. Don’t let this evaporate into thin air. Don’t let this go.
Olivia CliffordOlivia Clifford No matter how much you take care of everything in your life, if you ignore self-care, everything is wasted.
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David LynchDavid Lynch I love seeing people come out of darkness.
David LynchDavid Lynch When you reach a point of no return with someone and you feel there’s going to be no reconciliation, you have to disconnect. I can’t allow myself to be emotionally connected with people like that again, it’s too damaging.
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