Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
JACK KEROUACI realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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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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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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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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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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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.
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On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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