Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 9

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• It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Peculiar, Elements

  The New York Journal-American, December 8, 1960.

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• There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?

  Jack Kerouac

  Substance, Divine, Universal

  Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.37, BookBaby

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• Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition.

  Jack Kerouac

  Remove, Inhibitions

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

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• You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fighting, Cities, Names

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• How I wished I'd have had a camera of my own, a mad mental camera that could register pictorial shots, of the photographic artist himself prowling about for his ultimate shot - an epic in itself. (On the road with Robert Frank, 1958)

  Jack Kerouac

  Epic, Artist, Mad

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• All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

  Jack Kerouac

  Kindness, Practice, Heaven

  "Visions of Gerard". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1963.

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• I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

  Jack Kerouac

  Art, Writing, Feelings

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• One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.

  Jack Kerouac

  Encouragement, Eye, Night

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.121, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears.

  Jack Kerouac

  Writing, Men, Down And

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

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• stick at it like a benni addict

  Jack Kerouac

  Sticks, Addict

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• The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon field; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments.

  Jack Kerouac

  Beautiful, Air, Color

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

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• Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.

  Jack Kerouac

  Crazy, Mind, Being Crazy

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

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• The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sweet, Winter, New Orleans

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

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• Always pull back-and see how silly we must look to God.

  Jack Kerouac

  Silly, Looks

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• The taste of rain -- Why kneel?

  Jack Kerouac

  Rain, Taste

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “Book of Blues”, p.78, Penguin

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• Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sunset, Color, Purple

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

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• I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dream, World, Wonderful

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.323, Penguin

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• Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Thinking, Vision

  "Selected letters, 1940-1956".

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• She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too much to bear sometimes like some fantastic futuristic Jerry Southern singer in a nightclub who steps up to the mike in the spotlight in Las Vegas but doesn't even have to sing, just talk, to make men sigh and women wonder I guess.

  Jack Kerouac

  Heart, Men, Vegas

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “Big Sur”, p.89, Penguin

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• The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

  Jack Kerouac

  Dog, Tree, Heaven

  Bertrand Agostini, Christiane Pajotin, Jack Kerouac (1998). “Itinéraire dans l'errance: Jack Kerouac et le haïku”

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• ...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

  Jack Kerouac

  Soul, Mixing, Would Be

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

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• I'm writing this book because we're all going to die.

  Jack Kerouac

  Wisdom, Book, Writing

  Jack Kerouac (1993). “Visions of Cody”, p.354, Penguin

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• Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.

  Jack Kerouac

  Sadness, Laughing, Machines

  Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: The Original Scroll”, p.206, Penguin UK

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• Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.

  Jack Kerouac

  Fall, Mind, Creation

  Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.99, Penguin

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• Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?

  Jack Kerouac

  Life And Love, Father, Hands

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