No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
JACK KEROUACI was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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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 happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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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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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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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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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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The only truth is music.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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