Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 2

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• Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that everything is alright forever and forever and forever.

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Essence, Forever

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Stores

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light

  Jack Kerouac

  Light, Darkness, May

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “The Scripture of the Golden Eternity: Pocket Poets Number 51”, p.79, City Lights Books

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• Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, Night, Thinking

  Jack Kerouac (1960). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.131, 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 “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.218, Library of America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 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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• For life is holy and every moment is precious.

  Jack Kerouac

  Suitcases, Life Is, Moments

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

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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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• He had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Travel, Stars

  "On the Road".

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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'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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• 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 promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

  Jack Kerouac

  Life, Giving Up, Yelling

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

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Score

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

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Thinking, Confusion, Confusing

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

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

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Phones, People

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• No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength

  Jack Kerouac

  Being Alone, Men, Boredom

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.118, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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 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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Dark, Simple

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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.

  Jack Kerouac

  Stars, School, Dark

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

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