Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 11

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• The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Hipster, Crazy

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

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• John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Trying, Generations

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

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• Will you love me in December as you do in May?

  Jack Kerouac

  Love, Wisdom, May

  Jack Kerouac (1959). “The Town and the City”

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• It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Way, Inspiration To Write

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

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• At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Night, Mud

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)”, p.36, BookBaby

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• -no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I'd roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Dream, Spiritual

  Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.36, Grove Press

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• We agreed to love each other madly.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love Each Other

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

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• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, America, Car

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road”, p.151, Penguin UK

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• And what does the rain say at night in a small town, what does the rain have to say? Who walks beneath dripping melancholy branches listening to the rain? Who is there in the rain’s million-needled blurring splash, listening to the grave music of the rain at night, September rain, September rain, so dark and soft? Who is there listening to steady level roaring rain all around, brooding and listening and waiting, in the rain-washed, rain-twinkled dark of night?

  Jack Kerouac

  Rain, Dark, Night

  Jack Kerouac (1959). “The Town and the City”

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• I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Sleep, Interesting

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.148, Penguin

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• It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.

  Jack Kerouac

  Serious

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

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• Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad air, as though she wanted to cut off his head and hide it in her closet, an envious and rueful love of him so amazingly himself, all raging and sniffy and crazy-wayed, a smile of tender dotage but also sinister envy that frightened me about her, a love she knew would never bear fruit because when she looked at his hangjawed bony face with its male self-containment and absentmindedness she knew he was too mad.

  Jack Kerouac

  Country, Crazy, Eye

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

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• And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Stars, Moon

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.28, BookBaby

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• In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood

  Jack Kerouac

  Lonely, Wine, Sleep

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

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• No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Dignity, Language

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• Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.

  Jack Kerouac

  Eye, Swimming, Sea

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• Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

  Jack Kerouac

  Notebook, Joy, Secret

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• I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Would Be, Earth

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.79, Penguin

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• Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift.

  Jack Kerouac

  Satirical, Burroughs

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• The cause of the world's woe is birth, the cure of the world's woe is a bent stick.

  Jack Kerouac

  World, Woe, Causes

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.33, City Lights Books

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• all day long wearing a hat that wasn't on my head

  Jack Kerouac

  Long, Hats

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.26, Penguin

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• The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Mold, Lines

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.146, Penguin

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• Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.

  Jack Kerouac

  Promise, Prison

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.217, Penguin

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• Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.

  Jack Kerouac

  Struggle, Writing, Mind

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

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• There is a blessedness surely to be believed,
  and that is that everything abides in eternal ecstasy, now and forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  Forever, Ecstasy, Blessedness

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.30, City Lights Books

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