Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 13

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• One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual and metaphysical hopelessness you can't learn in school no matter how many books on existentialism or pessimisn you read, or how many jugs of vision-producing Ayahuasca drink, or Mescaline take, or Peyote goop up with -

  Jack Kerouac

  Spiritual, Moving, Book

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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.

  Jack Kerouac

  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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• I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, People, Childhood

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

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• The truth of the matter is we don't understand our women; we blame on them and it's all our fault.

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  Matter, Faults, Blame

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.210, Penguin

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• Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain.

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  Mountain, Rays, Climbs

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.21, Penguin

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• ...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.

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  Reading, Bumps, Landscape

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

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• Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.

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  Wisdom, Men, Road Life

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

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• And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Thinking, Joy

  "The Portable Jack Kerouac".

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• But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Land, Waiting

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.220, Penguin

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• ...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.

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  Mean, Thinking, Bored

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.201, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Wisdom, Weather, Firsts

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.352, Penguin

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• It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

  Jack Kerouac

  Winning, Spirit, Humans

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

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• The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.

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  Lying, Matter, Harvard

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.256, Penguin

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• It's only through form that we can realize emptiness

  Jack Kerouac

  Emptiness, Realizing, Form

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.24, Penguin

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• Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Thinking, Sorrow

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

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• Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.

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  Talking, Joy, Soul

  "On the Road". Book by Jack Kerouac, Ch. 5, 1957.

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• I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?

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  Pride, Soul, Looks

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.219, Penguin

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• It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.

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  Feet, Mountain, Quiet

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.225, Penguin

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• I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.

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  Winter, Men, Action

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.169, Penguin

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• I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

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  Scared, Ghost, Stranger

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

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• Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off.

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  Wine, Wish, Teeth

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.192, Penguin

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• The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

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  Joy, Feels, Ups & Downs

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.98, BookBaby

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• Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

  Jack Kerouac

  Children, Men, Civilization

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.88, Penguin

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• 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

  Wisdom, Mind, Details

  Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.58, Grove Press

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