I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of the merit of art, but a question of spontaneity and sincerity and joy I say. I would like everybody in the world to tell his full life confession and tell it his own way and then we'd have something to read in our old age.

Jack Kerouac

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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

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

Jack Kerouac

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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

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

Jack Kerouac

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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

Jack Kerouac

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The world you see is just a movie in your mind.

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Put down the pen someone else gave you.

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

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

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

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

Jack Kerouac

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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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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.

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

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

Jack Kerouac

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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

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Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Jack Kerouac

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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.

Jack Kerouac

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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

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