Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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 promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?
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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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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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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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 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 road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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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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All of life is a foreign country.
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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