The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
JACK KEROUACPretty girls make graves.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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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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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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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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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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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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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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