1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

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    What difference does it make after all? For what’s heaven? What’s Earth? All in the mind.

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    You have to believe in life before you can accomplish anything.

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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 they’ll get there – and all the time they’ll get there anyway, you see.

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    I don’t want to be courageous, my emotions are against it; I want to be happy.

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    I wasn’t scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

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    There is a blessedness surely to be believed, and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.

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    Mudface is the mud in your goatface. What would you say if someone was asked the question ‘Does a dog have a Buddha nature?’ and said ‘Woof!

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

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