Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.
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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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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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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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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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It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
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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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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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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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Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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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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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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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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I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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