While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light.
JACK KEROUACThe only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
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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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The only truth is music.
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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
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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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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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For life is holy and every moment is precious.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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I petted the dogs who didn’t argue with me ever. All dogs love God. They’re wiser than their masters.
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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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If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong.
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