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Wisdom Quotes by Jack Kerouac

65 Wisdom quotes by Jack Kerouac

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Jack Kerouac tells us to use poetry instead of a phone, because people are rarely ready to answer. He describes finding Nirvana as locating silence and prefers an uncomfortable free bed over a comfortable locked one. He also urges us to keep rolling under the stars, never giving up even when love feels like a sad tale.

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Houses are full of things that gather dust

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Pain or love or danger makes you real again…

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There are worse things than being mad.

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There's wisdom in wine.

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If you own a rug you own too much.

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Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

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The beauty of things must be that they end.

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It all ends in tears anyway.

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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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Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream

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All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

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

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

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

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I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.

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Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

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“...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to…

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What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s…

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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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Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta…

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The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as…

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“...in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom…

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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…

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My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

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The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far…

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I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,…

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The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of…

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On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet…

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They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how…

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If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you…

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“Only a silly sober fool could think it; imagine gloating over such nonsense (because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in…

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I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this…

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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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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they…

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As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

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One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

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Will you love me in December as you do in May?

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My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.

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I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

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The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

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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…

“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”

“O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what He did:…

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

“The hot water pools are steaming, Fagan and Monsanto and the others are all sitting peacefully up to their necks, they're all naked, but…