Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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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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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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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 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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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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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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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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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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