Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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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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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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