Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 19

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• Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Feels, Studious

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.42, Penguin

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• Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Men, People

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

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• Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder at their own lies, will be to make them open up and be straight with one another. Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another.

  Jack Kerouac

  Lying, Lunch, People

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• The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be "supervised."

  Jack Kerouac

  Nice, Sleep, Vision

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.121, Penguin

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• And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.

  Jack Kerouac

  Daughter, Nice, Home

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

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• We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?" But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.

  Jack Kerouac

  Tonight, World, Causes

  "Is There A Beat Generation?". Forum at Hunter College, New York, November 8, 1958.

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• It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Stupid, Ideas

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.93, Penguin

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• Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Buddhism, Simple

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.34, Penguin

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• Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Men, Energy

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

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• At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, Light, White

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

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