I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
JACK KEROUACBecause in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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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 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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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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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 best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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