Jack Kerouac Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac Famous Quotes & Sayings
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All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street ...
Smith, I distrust any kind of Buddhism or any kinda philosophy or social system that puts down sex said Japhy (Gary Snyder)
I left with my canvas bag in which a few fundamental things were packed and took off for the Pacific Ocean with the fifty dollars in my pocket.
Most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.
My aunt once said the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.
Dreams were so irrational, so gray with a nameless terror ... and yet, too, so haunting and beautiful.
What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?
What are you going to do with yourself, Ed?" I asked. "I don't know," he said. "I just go along. I dig life.
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they've gone to the silence, the suppers of their own mystery.
A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
I clearly saw the skeleton underneath
all this show of personality
what is left of a man
and all his pride but bones?
all this show of personality
what is left of a man
and all his pride but bones?
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.
But I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
Because to me the only thing that matters is the conceptions in my own mind, there has to be no reality anyway to what I suppose is going on (p. 153)
All the men were driving home from work, wearing railroad hats, baseball hats, all kinds of hats, just like after work in any town anywhere.
I realised either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world.
And of course I was right.
And of course I was right.
What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.