Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 5

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• My witness is the empty sky.

  Jack Kerouac

  Travel, Aquarius, Sky

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

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• Believe in the holy contour of life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Believe, Relaxation, Holy

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.217, Library of America

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• Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.

  Jack Kerouac

  Photography, Taken, Rainy Day

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• Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.

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  Wisdom, Sleep, Bed

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.123, Penguin

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• When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

  Jack Kerouac

  Rivers, People, Bureaucracy

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.231, Penguin

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• I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.

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  Country, Home, Fire

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.118, Penguin

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• The silence was an intense roar.

  Jack Kerouac

  Silence, Intense

  Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Ray Bradbury, James Baldwin, James Purdy (1962). “Some postwar American writers”

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• The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

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  Joy, Serenity, Tea

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.67, Penguin

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• We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Frenzy

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.301, Penguin

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• There's wisdom in wine.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wine

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.190, Penguin

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• You guys are going somewhere or just going?

  Jack Kerouac

  Guy

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• Bein Crazy is the least of my worries.

  Jack Kerouac

  Crazy, Worry

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• If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Art, Powerful

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.402, Library of America

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• My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.

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  Wisdom, Aunt, Men

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

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• And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words.

  Jack Kerouac

  World, New Words, I Can

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.34, BookBaby

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• Pretty girls make graves

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Pretty Girl, Graves

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.29, Penguin

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• To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Littles, Life Is

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

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• The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.

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  Dream, Stars, Air

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, Penguin

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• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Empathy, Faults

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• and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

  Jack Kerouac

  Rags, Growing, Forlorn

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.366, Penguin

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• 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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Mistake, Past

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

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• I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

  Jack Kerouac

  Doors

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.27, BookBaby

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• Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.

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  Baby, Mean, Heaven

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• What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

  Jack Kerouac

  Goodbye, Travel, Crazy

  "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, (Ch. 8), 1957.

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• Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Night, Giving

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

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