I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
JACK KEROUACNothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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The only truth is music.
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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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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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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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 petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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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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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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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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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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