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.
JACK KEROUACI 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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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 use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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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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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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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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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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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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