Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 11

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• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, America, Car

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road”, p.151, Penguin UK

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• I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Sleep, Interesting

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.148, Penguin

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• It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.

  Jack Kerouac

  Serious

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.71, Penguin

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• And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Stars, Moon

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.28, BookBaby

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• In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood

  Jack Kerouac

  Lonely, Wine, Sleep

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

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• And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain’s million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark of night?

  Jack Kerouac

  Rain, Dark, Night

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

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• Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

  Jack Kerouac

  Notebook, Joy, Secret

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• Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Swimming, Sea

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• No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Dignity, Language

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• I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Would Be, Earth

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.79, Penguin

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• Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

  Jack Kerouac

  Satirical, Burroughs

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• -no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I'd roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Dream, Spiritual

  Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.36, Grove Press

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• all day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head

  Jack Kerouac

  Long, Hats

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.26, Penguin

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• The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.

  Jack Kerouac

  World, Woe, Causes

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.33, City Lights Books

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• The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Mold, Lines

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.146, Penguin

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• Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

  Jack Kerouac

  Promise, Prison

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.217, Penguin

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• Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.

  Jack Kerouac

  Struggle, Writing, Mind

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1996). “Selected letters, 1940-1956”, Penguin Paperbacks

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• cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

  Jack Kerouac

  Cliche, Truism

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

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• Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.

  Jack Kerouac

  Believe, Flower, World

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.137, Penguin

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• There is a blessedness surely to be believed,
  and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  Forever, Ecstasy, Blessedness

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.30, City Lights Books

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• Details are the Life of Prose.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Details, Prose

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• Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.

  Jack Kerouac

  Would Be, Lines, Pearls

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

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• You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Book, Writing

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?

  Jack Kerouac

  Childhood, Different, Would Be

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• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Land, Big Sur

  Jack Kerouac (1992). “Pomes All Sizes: Pocket Poets Number 48”, p.158, City Lights Books

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