Jack Kerouac Quotes About Walking

Quotes about: Walking

• Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop.

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  Art, Mistake, Past

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

• My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.

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  Rain, Shoes, Clean

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.8, Penguin

• Walking on water wasn't built in a day.

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  Water, Walking On Water, Walking

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.169, Penguin

• 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.

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  Night, Squares, Lasts

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.130, Penguin

• The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than walking on flat ground which is monotonous. The cute little problems present themselves at each step and yet you don't hesitate and you find yourself on some other boulder you picked out for no special reason at all, just like zen.~ Japhy

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  Cute, Thinking, Climbing

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

• Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs tramping around the back country.

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  Country, Journey, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.203, Penguin

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