Jack Kerouac Quotes

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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.

  Jack Kerouac

  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.

  Jack Kerouac

  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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Ink, Life Worth Living, Living On

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Kindness, Practice, Heaven

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

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Be Kind, Kind

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Running, Kindness, Cutting

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Tattoo, Too Much, Enough

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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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Crazy, World, I Realized

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

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• One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Wisdom, Writing

  "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

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

  Jack Kerouac

  World, This World

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

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

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

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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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Lying, Thinking

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

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

  Jack Kerouac

  I Hate You, Glowing, Pages

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

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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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Good Night, Goodnight, Dream

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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.

  Jack Kerouac

  World, Want, Plans

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• Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Rich

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

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• The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Yoga

  "Lonesome Traveler".

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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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• 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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• 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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Men, Giving

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

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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.

  Jack Kerouac

  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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• 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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