The only truth is music.
JACK KEROUACBe in love with your life, every detail of it.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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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.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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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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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 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.
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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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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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There’s wisdom in wine.
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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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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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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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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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