Jack Kerouac Quotes About Life
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
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Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.
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Be in love with your life, every detail of it.
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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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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.
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I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
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A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
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And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".
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