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Kerouac Quotes & Sayings

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Is Virgin you trying to
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

Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem. — Jack Kerouac

I'm compared to Kerouac, I suppose, because he traveled and rejected middle-class values, but the similarities end there. — Poe Ballantine

Beautiful girls
Just primp
But beautiful boys
Do suffer. — 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

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

Now this warm thought of greatness is a big chill in the wind - for — Jack Kerouac

Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages. — William S. Burroughs

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

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy! — 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

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 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

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

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

With frantic Dean I was rushing through the world without a chance to see it. — Jack Kerouac

I suddenly realized it was fall and that I was going back to New York. — 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

You have to believe in life before you can accomplish anything. — Jack Kerouac

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. — Jack Kerouac

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. — 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

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

Ere so sober Emily/ Did New England sow/ With brooms of activity/ I'd the tree-rock spoken to. — Jack Kerouac

And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight. — 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

Where is he tonight? Where am I? Where are you? — 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

It's impossible to fall of mountains you fool! — 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

Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much. — Jack Kerouac

Capote's rejoinder to the Kerouac assertion that he never needed to edit his writing: "That's not writing .That's typing. — Joseph Cavano

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

You guys are going somewhere or just going? — 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

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune. — Jack Kerouac

Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness ... — Jack Kerouac

Nature endlessly in every direction
inward to your body and outward into space. — 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

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

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do. — Jack Kerouac

I know who the great poets are. — 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

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

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

Troubles, you see, is the generalization-word for what God exists in. — Jack Kerouac

There are worse things than being mad. — Jack Kerouac

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

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

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

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

You'd never care to plant some roots in
society, I suppose, mused the other. — 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

We are nothing.
- Tomorrow we may be die.
We are nothing.
- You and me. — Jack Kerouac

Does this mean that frontiers from now on are to be in the imagination? — Jack Kerouac

What is a rainbow, Lord?
A hoop for the lowly. — Jack Kerouac

The whole universe was crazy and cock-eyed and extremely strange. — 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

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

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

To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short. — Jack Kerouac