Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 14

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• Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.

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  Sweet, Golden, Fields

  Jack Kerouac (2006). “Book of Sketches”, p.22, Penguin

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• The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is wailing beer-caps of bottles and jamming on the cash register and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, its béat, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown.

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  Heart, Eye, Beer

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Desolation Angels”, p.194, Penguin UK

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• Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

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  Fall, Jumping, Boulders

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.65, Penguin

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• Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.

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  Lonely, Land, California

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

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• So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

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  Girl, Past, World

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.125, Penguin

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• I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.

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  Lonely, Men, Doe

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.92, Penguin

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• At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.

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  Lonely, Stars, Home

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.291, Penguin

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• I loved the way she said 'LA'; I love the way everybody says 'LA' on the Coast; it's their one and only golden town when all is said and done.

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  Done, Golden, Way

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.176, Penguin

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• Once there was Louis Armstrong blowing his beautiful top in the muds of New Orleans; before him the mad musicians who had paraded on official days and broke up their Sousa marches into ragtime. Then there was swing, and Roy Eldridge, vigorous and virile, blasting the horn for everything it had in waves of power and logic and subtlety - leaning into it with glittering eyes and a lovely smile and sending it out broadcast to rock the jazz world.

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  Beautiful, Eye, New Orleans

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.241, Penguin

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• No time for poetry but exactly what is.

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  Poetry, Crafts

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

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• Nothing ever happened - Not even this

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  Happened

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• 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.

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  Wisdom, Men, Differences

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

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• Rocks are space, and space is illusion.

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  Rocks, Space, Illusion

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• The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.

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  Stress, Blood, Silence

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

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• equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha

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  Empty

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.68, Penguin

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• As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.

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  Knowing, Perfect, Pioneers

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “Book of Blues”, p.109, Penguin

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• To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

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  Children, Vapor, Innocent

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.244, Penguin

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• Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back

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  Land, America, Nowhere To Go

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.173, Penguin

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• Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes.

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  Snakes, Touch Me

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• I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. 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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  Wisdom, Home, Tired

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

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• Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.

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  Writing, Shining, Genius

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

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• I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Home

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

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• You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER

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  Dream, Mean, Blood

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• Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again.

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  Night, Giving, Design

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

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• Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. That love is the heritage, and cousin to death. That the only love can only be the first love, the only death the last, the only life within, and the only word . . . choked forever.

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  Love, Dream, Cousin

  Jack Kerouac (2017). “Maggie Cassidy”, p.22, Penguin UK

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