This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
JACK KEROUACI was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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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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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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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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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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The only truth is music.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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