You can’t live in this world but there’s nowhere else to go.
JACK KEROUACIt’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.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don’t know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind it is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.
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Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
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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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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
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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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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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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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A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.
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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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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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