There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
JACK KEROUACI 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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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.
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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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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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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 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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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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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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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