No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don’t need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.
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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 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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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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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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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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The only truth is music.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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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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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 saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
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On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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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 use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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