Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
JACK KEROUACDon’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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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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Pretty girls make graves.
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On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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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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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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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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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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