1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

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    Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can’t fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

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    Meanwhile the sunsets are mad orange fools raging in the gloom...

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    People change, they eat meals year after year and change with every meal.

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    Soon I’ll find the right words, they’ll be very simple.

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    I’m Catholic and I can’t commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

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    God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn’t know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive – the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

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