Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
JACK KEROUACOne day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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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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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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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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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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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 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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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