I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
JACK KEROUACThe silence was an intense roar.
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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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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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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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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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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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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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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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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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