This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
JACK KEROUACIf you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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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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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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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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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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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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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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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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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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