The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
JACK KEROUACThe closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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It’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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The only truth is music.
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
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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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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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I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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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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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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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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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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