Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
JACK KEROUACThe silence was an intense roar.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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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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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 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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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 saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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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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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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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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