I 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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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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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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Who 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?
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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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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 was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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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.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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