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There's wisdom in wine.

Wine, Wisdom, Drinking, Life Lessons, Social Lubricant

There's wisdom in wine

There's wisdom in wine

There's wisdom in wine

Jack Kerouac’s Quotes On Topics

Harmony | Lifestyle | Life As Art | Survival | Snow | Pride | Gratitude | Human Insignificance | Universe | Vibrancy | Perspective | Faith | Tenderness | Entertainment | Cultural Imagery | Personal Creativity | Adaptability | Character | Permanence | Spiritual Insight | More

More Jack Kerouac Quotes

“What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?”

Choices, Future, Uncertainty, Life Paths, Missed Opportunities

“Hopping a freight out of Los Angeles at high noon one day in late September 1955 I got on a gondola and lay down with my duffel bag under my head and my knees crossed and contemplated the clouds as we rolled north to Santa Barbara.”

Travel, Adventure, Contemplation, Freedom, Nature Observation

“A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.”

Smile, Sociability, Perception, Appearances, Irony

“Why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?”

Optimism, Future, Adventure, Life Appreciation, Unexpected Joys

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

Love, Seasons, Commitment, Relationship Longevity, Emotional Constancy

“I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.”

Sanity, World Perception, Self-affirmation, Social Critique, Perspective

“Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.”

Language, Creativity, Expression, Metaphor, Imagination

“Rocks are space, and space is illusion.”

Rocks, Space, Illusion, Perception, Philosophy

“The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be "supervised."”

Freedom, Conformity, Mental Health, Societal Expectations, Rebellion

“I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.”

Identity, Religion, Cultural Labels, Self-definition, Personal Beliefs

“I felt free and therefore I was free.”

Freedom, Feeling, Reality, Self-perception, Autonomy

“I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.”

Freedom, Adventure, Simplicity, Lifestyle, Choice

“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”

America, Journey, Future, Questioning, Society

“Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything.”

Self-acceptance, Kindness, Rest, Non-striving, Inner Peace

“As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.”

Reason, Knowledge, Transcendence, Understanding, Philosophy

“I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; New York gets godawful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.”

Loneliness, Cities, America, Perception, Contrast

“We agreed to love each other madly.”

Love, Passion, Agreement, Intensity, Relationship

“When I got better I realized what a rat he was, but then I had to understand the impossible complexity of his life, how he had to leave me there, sick, to get on with his wives and woes.”

Understanding, Complexity, Relationships, Empathy, Life

“Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.”

Civilization, Childhood Wisdom, Nature, Innocence Lost, Human Progress

“Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.”

Privacy, Vulnerability, Human Nature, Self-protection, Personal Boundaries