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.
JACK KEROUACYou can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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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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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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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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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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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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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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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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