Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 9

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• Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Thinking, Vision

  "Selected letters, 1940-1956".

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• I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, World, Wonderful

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.323, Penguin

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• You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

  Jack Kerouac

  Reality, Identity, Chaos

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• and the stars were icicles of mockery

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Icicles, Mockery

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.48, Penguin

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• Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.

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  Fall, Mind, Creation

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.99, Penguin

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• Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad in America.

  Jack Kerouac

  Home, Writing, Native Language

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• Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sadness, Laughing, Machines

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: The Original Scroll”, p.206, Penguin UK

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• She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too much to bear sometimes like some fantastic futuristic Jerry Southern singer in a nightclub who steps up to the mike in the spotlight in Las Vegas but doesn't even have to sing, just talk, to make men sigh and women wonder I guess.

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  Heart, Men, Vegas

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “Big Sur”, p.89, Penguin

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• I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of the merit of art, but a question of spontaneity and sincerity and joy I say. I would like everybody in the world to tell his full life confession and tell it his own way and then we'd have something to read in our old age.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Writing, Joy

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• I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Book, Writing

  Jack Kerouac (1993). “Visions of Cody”, p.354, Penguin

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• In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age.

  Jack Kerouac

  Winter, Medicine, Age

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.30, Penguin

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• It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Generations, Use

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• Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sunset, Color, Purple

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

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• I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Thinking, Way

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• Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??

  Jack Kerouac

  Flower, Bees, Staring

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.15, Penguin

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• Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?

  Jack Kerouac

  Life And Love, Father, Hands

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• We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

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  Goodbye, Wisdom, Love Is

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.192, Penguin

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• I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours

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  Memories, Writing, Winter

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Tristessa (Annotated)”, p.38, BookBaby

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• The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dog, Tree, Heaven

  Bertrand Agostini, Christiane Pajotin, Jack Kerouac (1998). “Itinéraire dans l'errance: Jack Kerouac et le haïku”

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• The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than walking on flat ground which is monotonous. The cute little problems present themselves at each step and yet you don't hesitate and you find yourself on some other boulder you picked out for no special reason at all, just like zen.~ Japhy

  Jack Kerouac

  Cute, Thinking, Climbing

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

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• What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Rainbow, Body

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

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• Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.

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  Writing, Mad, Joy

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

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• ..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was

  Jack Kerouac

  Moments, Road Life, Knows

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

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• We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell

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  America, Roof

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.155, Penguin

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• Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?

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  Clouds, White, Ties

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.20, Penguin

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