I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
JACK KEROUACSuppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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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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I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
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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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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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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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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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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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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 tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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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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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
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