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• Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past a men's clothing store on 42nd Street or South Main in L.A. and from a loudspeaker they suddenly heard a wild impossible mistake in jazz that could only have been heard inside their own imaginary head, and that is a new art. Bop.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Mistake, Past

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

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• Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

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  Mean, Dust, World

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

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• There's wisdom in wine.

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  Wine

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.190, Penguin

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• Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.

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  Baby, Mean, Heaven

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• and the stars were icicles of mockery

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  Stars, Icicles, Mockery

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.48, Penguin

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• What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

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  Goodbye, Travel, Crazy

  "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac, (Ch. 8), 1957.

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• In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach.

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  Pain, Mind, Madness

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.348, Penguin

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• The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

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  Joy, Serenity, Tea

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.67, Penguin

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• You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.

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  Reality, Identity, Chaos

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• But on top of all that, the feelings about Princess, 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 and I had really no lie come to a point where I regarded lust as offensive and even cruel. "Pretty girls make graves," was my saying, whenever I'd had to turn my head around involuntarily to stare at the in­comparable pretties of Indian Mexico.

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  Girl, Lying, Princess

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

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• Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.

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  Love, Life, Girl

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.39, BookBaby

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• As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk

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  Wisdom, Drunk, Rooms

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.163, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

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  America, East, Lines

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

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• To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.

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  Thinking, Littles, Life Is

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

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• But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.

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  Girl, Sweet, Dumb

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.10, Penguin

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• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

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  Wisdom, Empathy, Faults

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• I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

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  Wisdom, Children, Stories

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• The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world, actually easier than walking on flat ground which is monotonous. The cute little problems present themselves at each step and yet you don't hesitate and you find yourself on some other boulder you picked out for no special reason at all, just like zen.~ Japhy

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  Cute, Thinking, Climbing

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

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• We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

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  Heartbreaking, New Friends

  Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.11, Penguin

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• After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

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  Men, World, Cry

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.122, Penguin

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• Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse.

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  Madhouses

  Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “Jack Kerouac: selected letters, 1940-1956”, Viking Pr

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• It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.

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  Things To Do, Best Things, Hard

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “Big Sur”, p.24, Penguin

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• ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you

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  Want

  Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.6, Grove Press

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• There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

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  Travel, Things To Do

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• Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach.

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  Running, Beach, Wine

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.7, Penguin

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