Jack Kerouac Quotes
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Is Virgin you trying to
fathom me — Jack Kerouac
fathom me — Jack Kerouac
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
Beautiful girls
Just primp
But beautiful boys
Do suffer. — Jack Kerouac
Just primp
But beautiful boys
Do suffer. — Jack Kerouac
Both of us had a lot to say, but there was no room to say it in, we were so tense and close.
— Jack Kerouac
Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.
— Jack Kerouac
I was getting drunk and didn't care; everything was fine
— Jack Kerouac
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
— Jack Kerouac
I like my whiskey wild,
— 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
Here I was at the end of America ... no more land ... and nowhere was nowhere to go but back
— Jack Kerouac
Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious.
— 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
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
— Jack Kerouac
nothing could disturb this wise calm, this sanity of soul
— Jack Kerouac
Don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.
— Jack Kerouac
Whatever anyone does,/ anyone says, in the/ past, now, everything, let/ it bounce off the rock/ of yr gladness (yr mirror)
— Jack Kerouac
All dogs love God. They're wiser than their masters.
— Jack Kerouac
You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.
— Jack Kerouac
Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.
— Jack Kerouac
I was going to grow up to walk in sleet in fields ...
— 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
Nd that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was
— Jack Kerouac
The taste
of rain
-- Why kneel? — Jack Kerouac
of rain
-- Why kneel? — Jack Kerouac
If I ever went to Paris,' said Francis, unexpectedly pensive, 'I think I would be very happy ...
— Jack Kerouac
Because the only people for me are the mad ones.
— Jack Kerouac
The mambo never let up for a moment, it frenzied on like an endless journey in the jungle (288).
— Jack Kerouac
Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
— Jack Kerouac
He was out to get back everything he'd lost; there was no end to his loss; this thing would drag on forever.
— Jack Kerouac
If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.
— 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
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.
— Jack Kerouac
There are worse things than being mad.
— Jack Kerouac
You guys are going somewhere or just going?
— Jack Kerouac
It's impossible to fall of mountains you fool!
— Jack Kerouac
Ah the mad hearts of all of us.
— Jack Kerouac
all of life is a foreign country.
— Jack Kerouac
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life
— Jack Kerouac
Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
— Jack Kerouac
I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
— Jack Kerouac
And the girl gets married?
I have a bunch of stray cats
in my yard
I wouldn't have a daughter — Jack Kerouac
I have a bunch of stray cats
in my yard
I wouldn't have a daughter — Jack Kerouac
Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else?
— 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
Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer ... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
— Hunter S. Thompson
You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
— 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
My work comprises one vast book like Proust's except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a sick bed.
— 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
And of course I was right. — Jack Kerouac
I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.
— Jack Kerouac
I'm an idealist
who has outgrown
my idealism
I have nothing to do
the rest of my life
but do it
and the rest of my life
to do it — Jack Kerouac
who has outgrown
my idealism
I have nothing to do
the rest of my life
but do it
and the rest of my life
to do it — Jack Kerouac
Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't know but we gotta go. — Jack Kerouac
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't know but we gotta go. — Jack Kerouac
I know who the great poets are.
— Jack Kerouac
Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
— 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
it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone. — Jack Kerouac
To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.
— Rupert Penry-Jones
Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.
— Jack Kerouac
My witness is the empty sky.
— Jack Kerouac
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.
— Jack Kerouac
What is a rainbow, Lord?
A hoop for the lowly. — Jack Kerouac
A hoop for the lowly. — Jack Kerouac
Ere so sober Emily/ Did New England sow/ With brooms of activity/ I'd the tree-rock spoken to.
— 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
I feel impossibly sad and like I'll die, what can we do?
— Jack Kerouac
And I saw how everybody dies and nobody's going to care. I felt how it is to live just so you can die like a bull trapped in a screaming human ring.
— Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
— Edward Abbey
They never asked, I kept offering.
— 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
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)
— Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.
— Dennis Miller
They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
— Jack Kerouac
Where is he tonight? Where am I? Where are you?
— Jack Kerouac