Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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There’s wisdom in wine.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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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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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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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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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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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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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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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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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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