If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
JACK KEROUACEverything 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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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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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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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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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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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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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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