So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
JACK KEROUACSo 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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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 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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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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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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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 use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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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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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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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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