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.
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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All of life is a foreign country.
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Don’t tell them too much about your soul. They’re waiting for just that.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.
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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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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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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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Pretty girls make graves.
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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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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The beauty of things must be that they end.
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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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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
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Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
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