Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 10

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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

  Jack Kerouac

  Memories, Writing, Winter

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Mad, Joy

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

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

  Jack Kerouac

  America, Roof

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

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

  Jack Kerouac

  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 have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.

  Jack Kerouac

  Done, World, Dharma Bums

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

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• Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Wisdom, Drinking

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.183, Penguin

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• But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

  Jack Kerouac

  Expression, Worry, Soul

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

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• Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Forgiving, Sin

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• Absolutely no way to escape enigmans.

  Jack Kerouac

  Way

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• Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

  Jack Kerouac

  Independent, Men, Paris

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.152, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Lovely, Hallucinations

  "The Dharma Bums".

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• You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

  Jack Kerouac

  Tunes, Maestro, Teach

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.161, Penguin

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• a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn't got any money: he doesn't need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.

  Jack Kerouac

  Disappointment, Drinking, Years

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.77, Penguin

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• He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

  Jack Kerouac

  Fate, Psychosis, Violence

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

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• A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

  Jack Kerouac

  Passion, Heart, Men

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

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• As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.

  Jack Kerouac

  Drunk, Mind, Grew

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Satori in Paris and Pic”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• This was a manuscript of the night we couldn’t read.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, Manuscripts

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

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• The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.

  Jack Kerouac

  Home, October, Going Home

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.129, Penguin

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• Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do.

  Jack Kerouac

  Cat, Realizing

  Jack Kerouac (2010). “La scrittura dell'eternità dorata”, p.34, Edizioni Mondadori

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