I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
JACK KEROUACNo fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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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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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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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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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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The only truth is music.
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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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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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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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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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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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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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