Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
JACK KEROUACThe closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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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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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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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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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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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 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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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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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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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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