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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.

  Jack Kerouac

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 “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.220, Library of America

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• 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

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.39, 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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• My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

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  Epic, Life Is, Inconsequential

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

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• As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.

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  Clouds, Utah, Sky

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

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  Swimming, Rivers, Hardship

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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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.

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  Life, Lying, Thinking

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

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• Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.

  Jack Kerouac

  All Things, Good Will

  "On the Road".

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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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• For life is holy and every moment is precious.

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  Suitcases, Life Is, Moments

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.156, 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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• 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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• I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Delight, Rebellion

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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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• 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?

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  Light, Flames, Forever

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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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• 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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• No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

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  Love You, Loss, Forever

  "Selected letters, 1940-1956".

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

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  Long, Easy, Ends

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

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• Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

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  Drinking, Drunk, Enjoy Life

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• my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.

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  Karma, Fun, Believe

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.31, Penguin

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

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  Waiting, Soul, Too Much

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

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