The silence was an intense roar.
JACK KEROUACOne day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
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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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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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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 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.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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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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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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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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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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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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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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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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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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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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