Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
JACK KEROUACDon’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
JACK KEROUACBelieve in the holy contour of life.
JACK KEROUACFor life is holy and every moment is precious.
JACK KEROUACI feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
JACK KEROUACEverything 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.
JACK KEROUACDon’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
JACK KEROUACYou are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
JACK KEROUACWho knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
JACK KEROUACI hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
JACK KEROUACMy fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
JACK KEROUACPain or love or danger makes you real again.
JACK KEROUACIf you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
JACK KEROUACWhen you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
JACK KEROUACThe only truth is music.
JACK KEROUACI had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
JACK KEROUACBetter to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
JACK KEROUAC