When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
JACK KEROUACGenius gives birth, talent delivers.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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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.
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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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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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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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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.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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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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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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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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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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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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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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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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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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