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.
JACK KEROUACI feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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The only truth is music.
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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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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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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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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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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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