I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
JACK KEROUACBe in love with your life, every detail of it.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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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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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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 had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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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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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.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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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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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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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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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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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.
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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