No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
JACK KEROUACEverything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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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 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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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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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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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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The only truth is music.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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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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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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