The silence was an intense roar.
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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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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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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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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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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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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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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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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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Pretty girls make graves.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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