Jack Kerouac Quotes

• I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Dark, Simple

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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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• 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, Thinking, Night

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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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  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

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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

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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

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• The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.

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  Dream, Night, Ties

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• Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much.

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  Happens

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

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  Tattoo, Too Much, Enough

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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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, Pages

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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

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• How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist himself prowling about for his ultimate shot - an epic in itself. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)

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  Epic, Artist, Mad

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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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• 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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• 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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  Goodnight, Good Night, Dream

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• My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

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  Epic, Life Is, Inconsequential

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• Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream

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  Dream, Wisdom, Yoga

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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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  Being Alone, Men, Boredom

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

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  Wisdom, Stores

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• The taste of rain -- Why kneel?

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  Rain, Taste

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• It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

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  Goodbye, Travel, Crazy

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