What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
JACK KEROUACMy eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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All of life is a foreign country.
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Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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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.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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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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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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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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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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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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The only truth is music.
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