1,027 Quotes by Jack Kerouac

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    Soon it got dusk, a grape dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

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    Because 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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    True friends won't grow apart even if they don't everyday.

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    To me a mountain is a buddha. think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sittin there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.

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    All human beings are dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

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    Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born.

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    February dawn frost on the path Where I paced all winter.

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