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

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


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Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.

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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.

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.



Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.



It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

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Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

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