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I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being. — Jack Kerouac

Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last. — Jack Kerouac

What did it matter? I was a young writer and I wanted to take off. — Jack Kerouac

I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys. — Harvey Pekar

It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false. — Jack Kerouac

Here I was at the end of America ... no more land ... and nowhere was nowhere to go but back — Jack Kerouac

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. — Jack Kerouac

You boys going to get somewhere, or just going? We didn't understand his question, and it was a damned good question. — Jack Kerouac

I'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can. — Jack Kerouac

And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words. — Jack Kerouac

Details are the Life of Prose. — Jack Kerouac

It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow — Jack Kerouac

I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn. — Jack Kerouac

If I ever went to Paris,' said Francis, unexpectedly pensive, 'I think I would be very happy ... — Jack Kerouac

The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick. — Jack Kerouac

The mambo never let up for a moment, it frenzied on like an endless journey in the jungle (288). — Jack Kerouac

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong. — Jack Kerouac

Every night I still ask the Lord, "Why?" and havent heard a decent answer yet — Jack Kerouac

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words. — Jack Kerouac

...the stars are fixed in rooftops like ink. — Jack Kerouac

Mudface is the mud in your goatface. What would you say if someone was asked the question 'Does a dog have a Buddha nature?' and said 'Woof! — Jack Kerouac

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view — Jack Kerouac

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land. — Jack Kerouac

In one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it was "The pathway to wisdom lies through excess" (p. 113) — Jack Kerouac

Ah the mad hearts of all of us. — Jack Kerouac

I realised either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world.
And of course I was right. — Jack Kerouac

I know who the great poets are. — Jack Kerouac

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream — Jack Kerouac

Her unimpeachable dignity was the thing that made her poor in a wild old whorehouse. — Jack Kerouac

The Chinese call it woo
The French les brumes
The British
Fog
L A
Smog
Heaven
Cellar Door — Jack Kerouac

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. — Jack Kerouac

Be in love with everything . — Jack Kerouac

Life must be rich and full of loving
it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone. — Jack Kerouac

Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error. — Yann Martel

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. — Jack Kerouac

My witness is the empty sky. — Jack Kerouac

There are worse things than being mad. — Jack Kerouac

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away. — Jack Kerouac