Pretty girls make graves.
JACK KEROUACBelieve in the holy contour of life.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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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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There’s wisdom in wine.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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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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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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The only truth is music.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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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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