I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
JACK KEROUACWhat’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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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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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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 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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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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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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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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