You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
JACK KEROUACAll 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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The silence was an intense roar.
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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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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 use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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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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I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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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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There’s wisdom in wine.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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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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