The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
JACK KEROUACThe fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
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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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I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
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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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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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Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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There’s wisdom in wine.
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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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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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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
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