Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 12

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• cliches are truisms and all truisms are true

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  Cliche, Truism

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

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• Details are the Life of Prose.

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  Writing, Details, Prose

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• Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.

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  Would Be, Lines, Pearls

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

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• You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams, and to wake up not knowing who one is: this all stems from anxiety about finishing the book, about time 'growing short', etc., and the perpetual strain of invention.

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  Dream, Book, Writing

  Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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• LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.

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  Cities, Los Angeles, Brutal

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.180, Penguin

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• I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe the nothingness and purity of it. "Is there a certain and definite teaching to be given to all living creatures?" was the question probably asked to beetle browed snowy Dipankara, and his answer was the roaring silence of the diamond.

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  Mother, Teaching, Silence

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.157, Penguin

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• Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?

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  Gratitude, Honesty, Believe

  William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac (2009). “And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks”, p.100, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

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  Men, Land, Big Sur

  Jack Kerouac (1992). “Pomes All Sizes: Pocket Poets Number 48”, p.158, City Lights Books

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• But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack it on the grounds that they simply don't understand history and the yearning of human souls ... woe in fact unto those who make evil movies about the Beat Generation where innocent housewives are raped by beatniks! ... woe unto those who spit on the Beat Generation, the wind'll blow it back.

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  Mean, Thinking, Blow

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• I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren't people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

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  Hangover, Mean, People

  Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

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• I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?

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  Childhood, Different, Would Be

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• February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.

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  Winter, Dawn, Frost

  Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.51, Penguin

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• The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

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  Wisdom, Long, Pages

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.83, Penguin

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• That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.

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  Rich Or Poor, Stories, Story Of My Life

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.45, Penguin

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• And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

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  Tanks, Beat Generation, Hippo

  William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac (2009). “And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks”, p.185, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed.

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  Cat, Moon, Purring Cats

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• We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

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  Moving, Confusion, Leaving

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.219, Penguin

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• When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

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  Wisdom, Positivity, Scripture

  Jack Kerouac, “The Scripture Of The Golden Eternity”

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• I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.

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  Dark, Sky, People

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.188, Penguin

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• Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind.

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  Writing, Mind, Want

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

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• I like it because its ugly

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  Ugly

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.228, Penguin

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• Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

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  Writing, Recollection, Amazement

  "Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in "Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956" by Jack Kerouac, 1995.

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• Down in Denver, all I did was die.

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  Denver, Dies

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.144, Penguin

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• It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.

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  Thinking, Forever, Moments

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.104, Penguin

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• Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

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  Flower, Tired, Air

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

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