Jack Kerouac quotes - page 2

Pain or love or danger makes you real again... (Jack Kerouac)
Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved? View quote
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I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta. View quote
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We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined. View quote
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Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears... View quote
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... do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean. View quote
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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.... View quote
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I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever. View quote
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To the children and the innocent it's all the same. View quote
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Accept loss forever. View quote
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The beauty of things must be that they end. (Jack Kerouac)
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. View quote
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Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. View quote
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The only truth is music. View quote
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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. View quote
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Will you love me in December as you do in May? View quote
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I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. View quote
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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence. View quote
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Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world. View quote
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As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk. View quote
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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)
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. View quote
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There are worse things than being mad. View quote
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The silence was an intense roar. View quote
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Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live. View quote
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