I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
JACK KEROUACThere’s wisdom in wine.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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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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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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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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