Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 8

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• Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hippie, Yawning, People

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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• You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fighting, Cities, Names

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Children, Father

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

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• I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in these things. It was with some amazement that I realized I was one of the few people in the world who really believed in these things without going around making a dull middle class philosophy out of it. I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Stars, Philosophy

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• and silence is the golden mountain

  Jack Kerouac

  Silence, Mountain, Golden

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

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• stick at it like a benni addict

  Jack Kerouac

  Sticks, Addict

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• Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that cramp they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hair, Fancy Cars, Oil

  "The Dharma Bums". Book by Jack Kerouac, Ch. 13, 1958.

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• Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition.

  Jack Kerouac

  Remove, Inhibitions

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

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• Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Wisdom, Mind

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.72, City Lights Books

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• If you own a rug you own too much.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Too Much, Ifs

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• It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Peculiar, Elements

  The New York Journal-American, December 8, 1960.

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• I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Writing, Feelings

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• One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Encouragement, Eye, Night

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.121, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Winter, New Orleans

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

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• Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Men, Down And

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

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• Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.

  Jack Kerouac

  Crazy, Mind, Being Crazy

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

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• How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist himself prowling about for his ultimate shot - an epic in itself. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)

  Jack Kerouac

  Epic, Artist, Mad

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• In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach.

  Jack Kerouac

  Pain, Mind, Madness

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.348, Penguin

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• The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Vision, Facts

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

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• And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Love Is, Long

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “Old Angel Midnight”, p.8, City Lights Publishers

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• It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Hate, World

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.113, BookBaby

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• Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.

  Jack Kerouac

  Meditation, Awakening, Realizing

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.141, Penguin

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• But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do

  Jack Kerouac

  Wind, Sea, Matter

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.35, BookBaby

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• ...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

  Jack Kerouac

  Soul, Mixing, Would Be

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

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• It all ends in tears anyway.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Tears, Ends

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.216, Penguin

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