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 KEROUACIt’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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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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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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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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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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All of life is a foreign country.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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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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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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