It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
JACK KEROUACDon’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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All of life is a foreign country.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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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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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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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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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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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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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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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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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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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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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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I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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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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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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