I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
JACK KEROUACAll 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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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Life must be rich and full of loving–it’s no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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The only truth is music.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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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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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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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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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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