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.
JACK KEROUACContrary 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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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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While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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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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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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 feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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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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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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