Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 19

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• In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way, that he had heard from 'real intellectuals.

  Jack Kerouac

  Real, Talking, Intellectual

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.117, Penguin

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• Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.

  Jack Kerouac

  Night, Squares, Lasts

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.130, Penguin

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• Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, Men, People

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

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• And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.

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  Honesty, Lasts, Said

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road”, p.79, Penguin UK

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• Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. . . . The net result of Naked Lunch will be to make people shudder at their own lies, will be to make them open up and be straight with one another. Swift and Rabelais and Sterne accomplished a step in that direction, and Burroughs another.

  Jack Kerouac

  Lying, Lunch, People

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• Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy

  Jack Kerouac

  Mean, Buddhism, Simple

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.34, Penguin

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• He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always, and something caught at his throat as he realized what a strange sad adventure life might get to be, strange and sad and still much more beautiful and amazing than he could ever have imagined because it was so really, strangely sad.

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  Beautiful, Adventure, Might

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

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• Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've got to go. So I went.

  Jack Kerouac

  New York, Spring, Land

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.317, Penguin

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• Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dog, Humility, Long

  "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

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• And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Causes, Sweet Life

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.92, Penguin

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