Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 17

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

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  Girl, Vision, Would Be

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It's pretty amazing to see a guy, while steering at the wheel, suddenly raise his little 300 dollar German camera with one hand and snap something that's on the move in front of him, and through an unwashed windshield at that. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)

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  Moving, Hands, Guy

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• You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -

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  Mean, Needs, Realization

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• I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.

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  Years, Suffering And Death, Feelings

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.29, Penguin

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• How clear the realization one is going mad -- the mind has a silence, nothing happens in the physique, urine gathers in your loins, your ribs contract.

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  Mad, Silence, Mind

  Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.74, Grove Press

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• I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I hate myself, bitterly it's too late yet while I feel better I still feel ephemeral and unreal and unable to straighten my thoughts or even really grieve, in fact I feel too stupid to be really bitter, in short I don't know what I'm doing and I'm being told what to do.

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  Morning, Hate, Stupid

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Desolation Angels”, p.18, Penguin UK

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• The beat generation (coined in Playboy)

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  Generations, Beats, Playboy

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• And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.

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  Daughter, Nice, Home

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

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• Then it's goodbye, Sangsara for me Besides, girls aren't as good as they look And Samadhi is better than you think When it starts in hitting your head In with Buzz of glittergold Heaven's Angels, wailing, saying We've been waiting for you since morning, Jack Why were you so long dallying in the sooty room? This transcendental Brilliance Is the better part (of Nothingness I sing) Okay. Quit. Mad. Stop.

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  Girl, Goodbye, Morning

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• At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.

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  Night, Light, White

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

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• The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be "supervised."

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  Nice, Sleep, Vision

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.121, Penguin

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• and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear?

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  Bears, Knows

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

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• The bus roared through Indiana cornfields that night; the moon illuminated the ghostly gathered husks; it was almost Halloween. I made the acquaintance of a girl and we necked all the way to Indianapolis. She was nearsighted. When we got off to eat I had to lead her by the hand to the lunch counter. She bought my meals; my sandwiches were all gone. In exchange I told her long stories.

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  Girl, Halloween, Moon

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.197, Penguin

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• They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

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  Hipster, Men, America

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.153, Penguin

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• but that's alright because now everything'll be alright & we'll soothe the forever boys & girls & before we're thru we'll find a name for this Goddam Golden Eternity & tell a story too

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  Girl, Boys, Names

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “Old Angel Midnight”, p.1, City Lights Publishers

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• I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show

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  Broadway, Fats, Shows

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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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• A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street.

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  Angel, Talking, Rosary

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

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• Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.

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  Writing, Men, Energy

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

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