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.
JACK KEROUACSome of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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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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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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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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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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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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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