Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
JACK KEROUACSo long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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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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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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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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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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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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?
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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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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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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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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