Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 7

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• Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

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  Truth, Saws

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• I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.

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  Life, World, Want

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• Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.

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  Wisdom, Mind, Gorges

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

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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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• Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.

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  Writing, Meditation, Silent

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• The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.

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  Dream, Stars, Air

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.145, 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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• A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

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  Life, Girl, Wisdom

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.176, Penguin

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• The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me

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  Wisdom, Sky, Space

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• It all ends in tears anyway.

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  Wisdom, Tears, Ends

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.216, Penguin

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• But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do

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  Wind, Sea, Matter

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.35, BookBaby

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• I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.

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  Catholic, Beatnik

  Jack Kerouac (1990). “Safe in Heaven Dead: Interviews with Jack Kerouac”

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• and silence is the golden mountain

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  Silence, Mountain, Golden

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.71, Penguin

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• If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

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  Writing, Want, What You Want

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• Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.

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  Meditation, Awakening, Realizing

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.141, Penguin

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• You guys are going somewhere or just going?

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  Guy

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• It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.

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  Wall, Fog, Blue

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.250, Penguin

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• The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.

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  Thinking, Vision, Facts

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

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• Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit.

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  Vanity, Names, Graves

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• i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.

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  Silly, Blow, Wish

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.217, Penguin

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• I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

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  Doors

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.27, BookBaby

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• Houses are full of things that gather dust

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  Wisdom, Dust, House

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• Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

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  Mistake, Writing, Talking

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• It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.

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  Wisdom, Hate, World

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.113, BookBaby

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• I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.

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  Death, Fall, Ignorance

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

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