Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
JACK KEROUACHe 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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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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I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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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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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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