This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
JACK KEROUACYou are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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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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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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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 only truth is music.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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