Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
JACK KEROUACI 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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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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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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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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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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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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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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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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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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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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