My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
JACK KEROUACYou can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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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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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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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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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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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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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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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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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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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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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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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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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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