Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
JACK KEROUACPain or love or danger makes you real again.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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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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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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All of life is a foreign country.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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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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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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