Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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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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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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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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The only truth is music.
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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 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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