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.
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 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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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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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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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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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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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