Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 13

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• We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

  Jack Kerouac

  Moving, Confusion, Leaving

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.219, Penguin

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• For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Weather, Firsts

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.352, Penguin

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• I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dark, Sky, People

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.188, Penguin

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• 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

  Wisdom, Positivity, Scripture

  Jack Kerouac, “The Scripture Of The Golden Eternity”

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• Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Mind, Want

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

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• It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.

  Jack Kerouac

  Jealous, Add, Want

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “Big Sur”, p.80, Penguin

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• Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Thinking, Sorrow

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

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• It's only through form that we can realize emptiness

  Jack Kerouac

  Emptiness, Realizing, Form

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.24, Penguin

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• Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mountain, Rays, Climbs

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.21, Penguin

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• I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?

  Jack Kerouac

  Pride, Soul, Looks

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.219, Penguin

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• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Travel

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

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• It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

  Jack Kerouac

  Winning, Spirit, Humans

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

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• The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

  Jack Kerouac

  Lying, Matter, Harvard

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.256, Penguin

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• I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

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  Winter, Men, Action

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.169, Penguin

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• It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

  Jack Kerouac

  Feet, Mountain, Quiet

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.225, Penguin

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• Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.

  Jack Kerouac

  Talking, Joy, Soul

  "On the Road". Book by Jack Kerouac, Ch. 5, 1957.

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• It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Forever, Vision

  Jack Kerouac (1972). “Visions of Cody”, London : André Deutsch

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• I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

  Jack Kerouac

  Scared, Ghost, Stranger

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

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  Wine, Wish, Teeth

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.192, Penguin

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• The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

  Jack Kerouac

  Joy, Feels, Ups & Downs

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.98, BookBaby

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• Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad air, as though she wanted to cut off his head and hide it in her closet, an envious and rueful love of him so amazingly himself, all raging and sniffy and crazy-wayed, a smile of tender dotage but also sinister envy that frightened me about her, a love she knew would never bear fruit because when she looked at his hangjawed bony face with its male self-containment and absentmindedness she knew he was too mad.

  Jack Kerouac

  Country, Crazy, Eye

  Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

  Jack Kerouac

  Children, Men, Civilization

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.88, Penguin

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• 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

  Wisdom, Mind, Details

  Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.58, Grove Press

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• ...[the photographer] can be considered a kind of disembodied burrowing eye, a conspirator against time and its hammers. His work, print after print of it, seems to call to be shown before the decay which it portrays flattens all... Here are the records of the age before an imminent collapse.

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Age, Hammers

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• Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Golden, Fields

  Jack Kerouac (2006). “Book of Sketches”, p.22, Penguin

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