Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
JACK KEROUACBetter to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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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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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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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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All of life is a foreign country.
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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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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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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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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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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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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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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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On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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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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