I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
JACK KEROUACNo 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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All of life is a foreign country.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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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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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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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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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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