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.
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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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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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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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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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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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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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.
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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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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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