The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
JACK KEROUACMy life is a vast inconsequential epic.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
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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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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 tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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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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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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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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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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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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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