Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
JACK KEROUACDon’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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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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