But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
JACK KEROUACThe happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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This is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
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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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So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
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The silence was an intense roar.
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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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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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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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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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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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I didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
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Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything
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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 of life is a foreign country.
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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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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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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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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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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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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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