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Time Quotes by Jack Kerouac

74 Time quotes by Jack Kerouac

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A party where everyone tries hard to have a good time but wakes up feeling sad shows how fun can hide deeper feelings. The quotes talk about chasing mental ecstasy, leaving confusion behind, and seeing love as a duel that ends with a final look. They also suggest that sometimes not thinking feels like freedom.

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

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For life is holy and every moment is precious.

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“You're a Genius all the time”

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No time for poetry but exactly what is.

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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

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We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

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“I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another…

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I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

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With joy realize for the first time thinking just not thinking-so I don't have to think anymore.

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“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go…

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I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

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...and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

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And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!

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...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly…

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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…

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And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains.…

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“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of…

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“I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future, and…

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“I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is…

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“By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's…

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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…

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...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after…

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“I wanted to go and get Ruth again and tell her a lot more things, and really make love to her this…

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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…

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“And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach and which was the…

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I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death…

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“ It's the beat generation. It's the begát. It's the beat to keep. It's the beat in the heart. It's being beat…

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“A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him for many reasons. But the poet persists. He believes that he…

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“The trouble with fashions is you want to fuck the women in their fashions but when the time comes they always take…

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“Here’s a guy and everybody’s there, right? Up to him to put down what’s on everybody’s mind. He starts the first chorus,…

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And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete…

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“I could hear and indescribable seething roar which wasn't which wasn't in my ear but everywhere and had nothing to do with…

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“O wind, songs have ye in her name? Plucked her did ye from midnight blasted millyard winds and made her renown ring…

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What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't…

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“And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was a complete…

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I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you…

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I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of…

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"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.

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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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“i've no time To dally hassel In your heart's house, It's too gray I'm too cold- I wanta go to Golden, That's…

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