Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
JACK KEROUACYou’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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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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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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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
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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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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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