I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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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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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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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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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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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 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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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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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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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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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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