Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
JACK KEROUACI 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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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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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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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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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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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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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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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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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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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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