So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
JACK KEROUACDon’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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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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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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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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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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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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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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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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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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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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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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