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I'd rather walk than ride the airplane, I can fall on the ground flat on my face and die that way.
— 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
Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.
— 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
Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning?
I did. — Jack Kerouac
I did. — Jack Kerouac
All day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head
— Jack Kerouac
I never dwelt on the dark farcical furious real life of this roaring working world, wow.
— 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
We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell
— 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
Does kittykat know there's a pigeon on the clothes closet?
— Jack Kerouac
and rain will fall on our eaves.
— Jack Kerouac
When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
— Jack Kerouac
The mambo never let up for a moment, it frenzied on like an endless journey in the jungle (288).
— 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
What's Your Road, Man?
— Jack Kerouac
I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my star further.
— Jack Kerouac
All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.
— Jack Kerouac
Galatea Dunkel was a tenacious loser.
— Jack Kerouac
We understood each other on other levels of madness.
— 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
I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
— 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
My eyes were glued on life, and they were full of tears.
— Jack Kerouac
Our minds, with their store of madness, had diverged. O gruesome life, ========== On the Road (Kerouac, Jack)
— Anonymous
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
— Jack Kerouac
Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.
— Linda Collison
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
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
They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
— 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
All I want from this book is a living, enough money to make a living, buy a farm and some land, work it, write some more, travel a little, and so on.
— 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
... the way to the bottom of South America where the Indians are seven feet tall and eat cocaine on the mountainside?
— Jack Kerouac
The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don't hold back, don't analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.
— Jack Kerouac
February dawn
frost on the path Where I paced all winter. — Jack Kerouac
frost on the path Where I paced all winter. — Jack Kerouac
Walking on water wasn't built in a day.
— Jack Kerouac
Now we were on the great Texas plain and, as Dean said, "You drive and drive and you're still in Texas tomorrow night.
— Jack Kerouac