No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
JACK KEROUACIt’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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
-
-
The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
JACK KEROUAC -
Something that you feel will find its own form.
JACK KEROUAC -
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
JACK KEROUAC -
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
JACK KEROUAC -
Pretty girls make graves.
JACK KEROUAC -
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?
JACK KEROUAC -
The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
JACK KEROUAC -
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
JACK KEROUAC -
Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
JACK KEROUAC -
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.
JACK KEROUAC -
If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
JACK KEROUAC -
The silence was an intense roar.
JACK KEROUAC -
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
JACK KEROUAC -
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
JACK KEROUAC -
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.
JACK KEROUAC