Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 6

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• I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

  Jack Kerouac

  America, East, Lines

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

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• After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, World, Cry

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

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• There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

  Jack Kerouac

  Travel, Things To Do

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• The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Sky, Space

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• Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)

  Jack Kerouac

  Lying, Dark, Kissing

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• Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Meditation, Silent

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• It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.

  Jack Kerouac

  Things To Do, Best Things, Hard

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “Big Sur”, p.24, Penguin

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• Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Mind, Gorges

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

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• I felt free and therefore I was free.

  Jack Kerouac

  Felt

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.138, Penguin

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• The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Golden, Eternity

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “Old Angel Midnight”, p.6, City Lights Publishers

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• In our true blissful essence of mind is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever...listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot, It is all one vast awakened thing. We were never really born, we will never really die. It has nothing to do with the imaginary idea of a personal self, other selves, many selves everywhere: Self is only an idea, a mortal idea. That which passes into everything is one thing. It's a dream already ended.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Essence, Ideas

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• We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

  Jack Kerouac

  Heartbreaking, New Friends

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.11, Penguin

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• Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

  Jack Kerouac

  Truth, Saws

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• A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth.

  Jack Kerouac

  Teeth, Mouths, Sociable

  "Desolation Angels". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1965.

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• Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mistake, Writing, Talking

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• I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

  Jack Kerouac

  America, Thieves, Realizing

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.168, Penguin

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• I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

  Jack Kerouac

  Catholic, Beatnik

  Jack Kerouac (1990). “Safe in Heaven Dead: Interviews with Jack Kerouac”

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• They build their own Hells.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hell

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• As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Drunk, Rooms

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.163, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Girl, Wisdom

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.176, Penguin

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• I'd better be a poet
  Or lay down dead.

  Jack Kerouac

  Poet, Lays

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• Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach.

  Jack Kerouac

  Running, Beach, Wine

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.7, Penguin

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• Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fall, Autumn, Leafs

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• But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Sweet, Dumb

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.10, Penguin

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• Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Believe, Angel

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.239, Penguin

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