The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
JACK KEROUACPractice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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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He 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.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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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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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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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 had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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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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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Believe in the holy contour of 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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