Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
JACK KEROUACDon’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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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.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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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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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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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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Pretty girls make graves.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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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 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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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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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The only truth is music.
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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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