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.
JACK KEROUACBelieve in the holy contour of life.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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You aren’t ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it–don’t plan anything, just go out and do it.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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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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