Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 10

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• I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.

  Jack Kerouac

  Done, World, Dharma Bums

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.122, Penguin

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• The taste of rain -- Why kneel?

  Jack Kerouac

  Rain, Taste

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “Book of Blues”, p.78, Penguin

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• Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Wisdom, Drinking

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.183, Penguin

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• But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

  Jack Kerouac

  Expression, Worry, Soul

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Absolutely no way to escape enigmans.

  Jack Kerouac

  Way

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Forgiving, Sin

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• Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

  Jack Kerouac

  Independent, Men, Paris

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.152, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

  Jack Kerouac

  Tunes, Maestro, Teach

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.161, Penguin

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• I think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Lovely, Hallucinations

  "The Dharma Bums".

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• And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Fades, Dies

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “Desolation Angels”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

  Jack Kerouac

  Fate, Psychosis, Violence

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

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• A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

  Jack Kerouac

  Passion, Heart, Men

  "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

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• a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn't got any money: he doesn't need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.

  Jack Kerouac

  Disappointment, Drinking, Years

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.77, Penguin

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Drunk, Mind, Grew

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Satori in Paris and Pic”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.

  Jack Kerouac

  Home, October, Going Home

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.129, Penguin

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• John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Trying, Generations

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

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• This was a manuscript of the night we couldn’t read.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, Manuscripts

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Hipster, Crazy

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

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• Will you love me in December as you do in May?

  Jack Kerouac

  Love, Wisdom, May

  Jack Kerouac (1959). “The Town and the City”

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• At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Night, Mud

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)”, p.36, BookBaby

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• All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

  Jack Kerouac

  Kindness, Practice, Heaven

  "Visions of Gerard". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1963.

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• It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Way, Inspiration To Write

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon field; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Air, Color

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do.

  Jack Kerouac

  Cat, Realizing

  Jack Kerouac (2010). “La scrittura dell'eternità dorata”, p.34, Edizioni Mondadori

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• We agreed to love each other madly.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love Each Other

  Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

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