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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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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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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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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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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 promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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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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The only truth is music.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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