I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
JACK KEROUACDon’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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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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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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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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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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