I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
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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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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On soft Spring nights I’ll stand in the yard under the stars – Something good will come out of all things yet – And it will be golden and eternal just like that – There’s no need to say another word.
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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It’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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You aren’t ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to do it–don’t plan anything, just go out and do it.
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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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Pretty girls make graves.
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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
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