All of life is a foreign country.
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?
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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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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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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