Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 2

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• The beauty of things must be that they end.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Ends

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Tristessa (Annotated)”, p.9, BookBaby

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• Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

  Jack Kerouac

  Waiting, Soul, Too Much

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

  Jack Kerouac

  Long, Easy, Ends

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.157, Penguin

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• If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Stories, True Story

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• Bein Crazy is the least of my worries.

  Jack Kerouac

  Crazy, Worry

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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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• Life is life, and kind is kind

  Jack Kerouac

  Kind, Life Is

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.129, Penguin

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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

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.118, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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  Wisdom, Rich

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

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• While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light

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  Light, Darkness, May

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.79, City Lights Books

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• The only truth is music.

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  Music, Wisdom, Inspirational Music

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

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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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• Something that you feel will find its own form.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Form, Feels

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.218, Library of America

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• I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

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  Wisdom, Caring, Differences

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

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• I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Giving Up, Yelling

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Travel, Stars

  "On the Road".

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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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• Pain or love or danger makes you real again.

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  Wisdom, Pain, Real

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.96, Penguin

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• I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

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  Thinking, Confusion, Confusing

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Phones, People

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• I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

  Jack Kerouac

  Light, Flames, Forever

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  Wisdom, Leaving, World

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