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Jack Kerouac - From the Adventure category:
- Desolation Angel...
So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Beauty category:
The beauty of things must be that they end. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Belief category:
Believe in the holy contour of life. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Boredom category:
- The Subterraneans...
Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Commitment category:
So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Communication category:
A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Confession category:
- The Subterraneans...
(difficult to make a real confession and show what happened when you're such an egomaniac all you can do is take off on big paragraphs about minor details about yourself and the big sole details about others go sitting and waiting around) (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Criticism category:
All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Danger category:
Pain or love or danger makes you real again... (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Dreams category:
- The Scripture of the Golden Eternity...
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Dreams category:
- The Sea is My Brother...
Dreams were so irrational, so gray with a nameless terror... and yet, too, so haunting and beautiful. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Drunkenness category:
- Satori in Paris & Pic...
My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Earth category:
- Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954...
The earth will always be the same - only cities and history will change, even nations will change, governments and governors will go, the things made by men's hands will go, buildings will always crumble - only the earth will remain the same... (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Eccentricity category:
Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness... (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Emotion category:
FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Experience category:
The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Failure category:
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Fame category:
What difference does it make after all? -anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Fashion category:
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Fire category:
- On the Road...
The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Form category:
Work from the pithy eye out, swimming in language sea. Something that you feel will find a form. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Form category:
Something that you feel will find its own form. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Form category:
It's only through form that we can realize emptiness. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Freedom category:
Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Genius category:
You're a genius all the time. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Goodness category:
- Big Sur...
Something good will come of all things yet. And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Guilt category:
- Big Sur...
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Happiness category:
Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Humanity category:
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Idealism category:
- Mexico City Blues...
I'm an idealist / who has outgrown / my idealism / I have nothing to do / the rest of my life / but do it / and the rest of my life / to do it. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Immortality category:
- The Scripture of the Golden Eternity...
I'm the golden eternity in mortal animate form. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Innocence category:
- The Dharma Bums...
To the children and the innocent it's all the same. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Interest category:
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Journey category:
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Journey category:
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Joy category:
And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Joy category:
- Big Sur...
The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Life category:
All of life is a foreign country. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Life category:
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Life category:
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Love category:
Be in love with your life, every detail of it. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Meditation category:
One night I was meditating in such perfect stillness that two mosquitoes came and sat on each of my cheekbones and stayed there a long time without biting and then went away. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Memory category:
Memories and dreams are intermixed in this mad universe. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Music category:
The only truth is music. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Nature category:
For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Opposites category:
It's all too much and not enough at the same time. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Originality category:
- Vanity of Duluoz: An Adventurous Education, 1935-46...
Did I come into this world thru the womb of my mother the earth just so I could talk and write like everybody else? (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Poetry category:
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Possibilities category:
I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Questions category:
What's in store for me in the direction I don't take? (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Questions category:
Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds? (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Revelation category:
- The Subterraneans...
The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don't hold back, don't analyze or anything as you go along, say it out. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Revelation category:
I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Seeing category:
- Big Sur...
I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Silence category:
The silence was an intense roar. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Sleep category:
- On the Road...
I just won't sleep, I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Sleep category:
Let us sleep by rivers and purify our ears. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Solitude category:
- Lonesome Traveler...
After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds... (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Space category:
- The Dharma Bums...
Rocks are space, and space is illusion. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Spirituality category:
- The Dharma Bums...
The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Standards category:
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)
Jack Kerouac - From the Thinking category:
But you can go on thinking and imagining forever further and stop at no decisions to pick up a bag for the thinkings. Turn your thinking into your work, your thoughts a book, in sieges. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Thought category:
- Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954...
And what do I think about? What thoughts do I have! - What thoughts! a whole host, multitude, and world of thoughts, I keep devising new ones and reworking old ones, some of the old ones are concluded and are only thought of as conclusions, whole worlds of new ones come crashing into my fingers, and it never ends. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Travel category:
- Satori In Paris...
Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Universe category:
The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Vanity category:
'Vanity of vanities... all is vanity.' You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is 'success,' the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Winning category:
It is possible for the human spirit to win after all. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Words category:
- The Dharma Bums...
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Worry category:
We all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Writing category:
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. (Jack Kerouac)
Jack Kerouac - From the Writing category:
I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. (Jack Kerouac)
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