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If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing? — Jack Kerouac

There's a guy, Anatole Broyard, of the N. Y. Times Book Review, who's still chasing Kerouac's corpse with a stiletto. — Allen Ginsberg

Here we are, by the side of the river - once upon a time we had a notion we were Romeo's. — 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

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

I've no time
To dally hassel
In your heart's house,
It's too gray
I'm too cold-
I wanta go to Golden,
That's my home. — Jack Kerouac

I loved the way she said 'LA'; I love the way everybody says 'LA' on the Coast; it's their one and only golden town when all is said and done. — 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

It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems. — 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

I knew [Timothy] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan [Kerouac]. — William S. Burroughs

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

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

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve. — William S. Burroughs

I sat cross-legged in the sand and contemplated my life. Well, there, and what difference did it make? What's going to happen to me up ahead? — 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 would fave preferred the happy man to the unhappy poems he's left us — Jack Kerouac

That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor. — 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

My aunt once said the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness. — Jack Kerouac

Does kittykat know there's a pigeon on the clothes closet? — Jack Kerouac

It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it. — Ack Kerouac WD

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

Meditate outdoors. The dark trees at night are not really the dark trees at night, it's only the golden eternity. — Jack Kerouac

Texas is undeniable ... We were already almost out of America and yet definitely in it and in the middle of where it's maddest. — Jack Kerouac

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

The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie. — 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

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

I am not 'I am' but just a spy in somebody's body. — 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

Maybe that's what life is ... a wink of the eye and winking stars. — Jack Kerouac

Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds? — 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

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? — Jack Kerouac

What's Your Road, Man? — Jack Kerouac

Vinny's was the scene of suicide hookies. — Jack Kerouac

Hell! I'm glad I did it. It's going to be a change. I
call this life! — Jack Kerouac

Nothing's alive for the universe is a dream already ended. — Jack Kerouac

Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" - — Jack Kerouac

O sweetheart and okay
Here's hopin we'll all be away
It was great fun
But it was just one a
those tings — Jack Kerouac

Use the shadows of the born
The shapes of the world
And pass them before the light
Of imagination's birthless ecstasy — Jack Kerouac

To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me. — Rupert Penry-Jones

By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's disapproval and I felt glad and slept well. — 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

Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.
O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac — Frank O'Hara

Fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all is hurt — Jack Kerouac

All life is but a skull-bone and
A rack of ribs through which
we keep passing food & fuel-
just so's we can burn so
furious beautiful. — Jack Kerouac

Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do. — Jack Kerouac

Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream. — Jack Kerouac

And nobody knows what's going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old — Jack Kerouac

It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared. — Jack Kerouac

It's all the same to me as long as it can be exciting and goes around the world. — Jack Kerouac

His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line. — Jack Kerouac

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

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

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

I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta. — Jack Kerouac

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. — Jack Kerouac

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

The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault, — Jack Kerouac

Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality. — Jack Kerouac

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. — 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

For you are an observer, you know, you observe things, that's why you live. — 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

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

It's all a sea, I swim out of its in the afternoons. — Jack Kerouac

My witness is the empty sky. — 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 told you it was kicks. Everybody's kicks, man! — Jack Kerouac

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

Capote's rejoinder to Kerouac's assertion that he never needed to edit his work ... But, that's not writing . That's typing. — Truman Capote

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

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

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

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

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

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

It's only through form that we can realize emptiness — Jack Kerouac

I know who the great poets are. — Jack Kerouac

You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go. — Jack Kerouac

New York gets god awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in the streets. — 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

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

It's hypocrisy of men makes these hills grim — 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