Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
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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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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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
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Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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The only truth is music.
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The best teacher is experience and not through someone’s distorted point of view.
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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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The silence was an intense roar.
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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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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.
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Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
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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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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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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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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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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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What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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You’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
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Believe in the holy contour of life.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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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You are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration.
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Something that you feel will find its own form.
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Something great is about to happen to me: I’m about to love somebody very much.
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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
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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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