You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
JACK KEROUACPain or love or danger makes you real again.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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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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I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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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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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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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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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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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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There’s wisdom in wine.
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Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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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.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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