Jack Kerouac Quotes

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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

  Jack Kerouac

  Motivational, Wisdom, Travel

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  Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.

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  Kindness, Practice, Heaven

  Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

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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, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

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  Inspirational, Friends, Horse

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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• Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

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  Wisdom, Travel, Inspire

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.175, Penguin

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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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  Ink, Life Worth Living, Living On

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• Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything

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  Writing, Be Kind, Kind

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.84, Penguin

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• I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

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  I Hate You, Glowing, Saws

  Jack Kerouac (1971). “The Dharma Bums”, p.138, Penguin

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• The world you see is just a movie in your mind.
  Rocks dont see it.
  Bless and sit down.
  Forgive and forget.
  Practice kindness all day to everybody
  and you will realize you’re already
  in heaven now.
  That’s the story.
  That’s the message.
  Nobody understands it,
  nobody listens, they’re
  all running around like chickens with heads cut
  off. I will try to teach it but it will
  be in vain, s’why I’ll
  end up in a shack
  praying and being
  cool and singing
  by my woodstove
  making pancakes.

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  Running, Kindness, Cutting

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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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  Thinking, Essence, Forever

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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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  Life, Lying, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• It's all too much and not enough at the same time.

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  Tattoo, Too Much, Enough

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• There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.

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  Wisdom, Travel, Stars

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• Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.

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  Stars, Night, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.131, Grove Press

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• Be in love with your life, every detail of it.

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  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). “Selected letters, 1940-1956”, Penguin Paperbacks

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• What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

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  Wisdom, Stores

  Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.22, Grove Press

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• Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

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  Wisdom, Phones, People

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  Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “Desolation Angels”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.

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  Stars, School, Dark

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.39, Penguin

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• Accept loss forever. Be submissive to everything,
  open, listening. No fear or shame in the dignity of
  your experience, language, and knowledge. Be in love
  with your life.

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  Love You, Loss, Forever

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• Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.

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  Good Night, Goodnight, Dream

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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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  Hippie, Yawning, People

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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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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  Silly, Want, Belief

  Letter to Ed White (5 July 1950), as published in "The Missouri Review", Vol. XVII, No. 3, (p. 137), 1994.

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• You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go.

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  World, This World

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.101, Penguin

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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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  Wisdom, Men, Giving

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.220, Library of America

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