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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  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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• 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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• 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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• I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all

  Jack Kerouac

  Lying, Sides, Remember

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.61, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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  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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• 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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Silence, Attention

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.57, City Lights Books

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

  Jack Kerouac

  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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• 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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• The only truth is music.

  Jack Kerouac

  Music, Wisdom, Inspirational Music

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

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

  Jack Kerouac

  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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• An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Sick, Realization

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.39, BookBaby

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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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• Pain or love or danger makes you real again.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Pain, Real

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

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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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• 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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Running, Stars

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

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