Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
JACK KEROUAC
JACK KEROUAC
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac 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 KerouacJack Kerouac 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 KerouacJack Kerouac You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac 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.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac All of life is a foreign country.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac The silence was an intense roar.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
Jack KerouacJack Kerouac There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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