The only truth is music.
JACK KEROUACDon’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
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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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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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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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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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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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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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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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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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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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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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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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