Jack Kerouac Quotes

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

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  Tattoo, Too Much, Enough

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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

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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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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• 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.

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  Writing, Dark, Simple

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

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  Wisdom, Dream, Yoga

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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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• 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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• 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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• Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.

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  Dream, Silence, Goes On

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• Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach....

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  Running, Beach, Wine

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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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  Wisdom, Giving Up, Yelling

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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

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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

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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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  Spiritual, Wisdom, Real

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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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