Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 2

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• The only truth is music.

  Jack Kerouac

  Music, Wisdom, Inspirational Music

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

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• I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Leaving, World

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• I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.

  Jack Kerouac

  Silly, Want, Belief

  Letter to Ed White (5 July 1950), as published in "The Missouri Review", Vol. XVII, No. 3, (p. 137), 1994.

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• The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.

  Jack Kerouac

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Real

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.206, Penguin

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• The beauty of things must be that they end.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Ends

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Tristessa (Annotated)”, p.9, BookBaby

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• No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

  Jack Kerouac

  Love You, Loss, Forever

  "Selected letters, 1940-1956".

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• Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

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  Waiting, Soul, Too Much

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

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• What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

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  Wisdom, Stores

  Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.22, Grove Press

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• I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

  Jack Kerouac

  Light, Flames, Forever

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• Something that you feel will find its own form.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Form, Feels

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.218, Library of America

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• The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hippie, Yawning, People

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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• I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

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  Wisdom, Men, Giving

  Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.220, Library of America

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• Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Rich

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

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• So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

  Jack Kerouac

  Long, Easy, Ends

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.157, Penguin

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• Genius gives birth, talent delivers.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Giving, Genius

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

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• Pain or love or danger makes you real again.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Pain, Real

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.96, Penguin

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• I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

  Jack Kerouac

  Swimming, Rivers, Hardship

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

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• I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Running, Stars

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

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• I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

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  Thinking, Confusion, Confusing

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

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• Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

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  Wisdom, Phones, People

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• Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

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  Score

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.228, Penguin

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• If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Stories, True Story

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• I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

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  Writing, Dark, Simple

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• My life is a vast inconsequential epic.

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  Epic, Life Is, Inconsequential

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “Desolation Angels”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.

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  Stars, School, Dark

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.39, Penguin

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