Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 17

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• The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L.A.

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  Eye, Air, Hot

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.117, Penguin

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• And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.

  Jack Kerouac

  Ignorance, Joy, Sorrow

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

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• Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.

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  Fall, Mountain, Finals

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.86, Penguin

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• Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

  Jack Kerouac

  God, Faith, Children

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

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• I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

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  Night, Love Is, Thinking

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

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• We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.

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  Ceilings, Wonder, Made

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.156, Penguin

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• You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money or fun you can get out of people and then you just throw them aside. Not only that but you're silly about it. It never occurs to you that life is serious and that there are people trying to make something decent out of it instead of just goofing all the time.

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  Fun, Silly, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road”, p.228, Penguin UK

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• I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless extremes; beseeching at the portals of the soft source, mad with a completely phsycial realization of the origins of life-bliss; blindly seeking to return the way he came

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  Origin Of Life, Years, Jail

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

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• The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?

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  Wisdom, Sweet, Hate

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.211, Penguin

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• The unspeakable visions of the individual.

  Jack Kerouac

  Vision, Individual, Unspeakable

  Jack Kerouac (1993). “Visions of Cody”, p.389, Penguin

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• Somewhere along the line I knew there'd be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.

  Jack Kerouac

  Girl, Vision, Would Be

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

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• Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.

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  Book, Wish, Mouths

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.166, BookBaby

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• ...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.

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  Wisdom, Mean, Worry

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

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• The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then.

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  Mad, Literature, Swirls

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.118, Penguin

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• God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. 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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  New York, Night, Thinking

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

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• We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.

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  Night, Land, America

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

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• Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone

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  Eye, Tired, Heart

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• Is Virgin you trying to fathom me

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  Trying, Fathom, Virgins

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.33, BookBaby

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• And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then.

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  New York, Crazy, Clouds

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• They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.

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  Three, Saving, Fifty

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.160, Penguin

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• Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing this, the radio says there's a foot of snow falling on Long Island. I really love snow and wish I could take a long walk in it right now.

  Jack Kerouac

  Nice, Book, Fall

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• When the railroad trains moaned, and river-winds blew, bringing echoes through the vale, it was as if a wild hum of voices, the dear voices of everybody he had known, were crying: "Peter, Peter! Where are you going, Peter?" And a big soft gust of rain came down. He put up the collar of his jacket, and bowed his head, and hurried along.

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  Rain, Echoes, Wind

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

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• and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.

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  Thinking, Sneak In, World

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.152, Penguin

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• Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could predict, if we only exerted enough mental will, what is going to happen within the next hundred years and be able to take steps to avoid all kinds of catastrophes. When a man dies he undergoes a mutation in his brain that we know nothing about now but which will be very clear someday if scientists get on the ball. The bastards right now are only interested in seeing if they can blow up the world.

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  Men, Blow, Years

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

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• I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.

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  Jumping, Guy, Soul

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

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