Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
JACK KEROUACLife must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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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 had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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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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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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