Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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 can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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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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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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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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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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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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