Jack Kerouac Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Art, Powerful

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.402, Library of America

• Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.

  Jack Kerouac

  Past, People, Drunk

  Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.33, Grove Press

• One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Encouragement, Eye, Night

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.121, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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