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.
JACK KEROUACSomething great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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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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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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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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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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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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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