Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
JACK KEROUACMy eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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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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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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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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