Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
JACK KEROUACYou 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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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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All of life is a foreign country.
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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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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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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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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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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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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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