I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“His daughters watched in the rain. The prettiest, shyest one hid far back in the field to watch and she had good… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Pretty soon...do you realize there'll be so many additional childhoods and pasts with everybody writing about them everybody'll give up reading in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“One look at the officials in the American Consulate where we went for dreary paper routines was enough to make you realize… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“i've been reading whitman, you know what he says, cheer up slaves, and horrify foreign despots, he means that's the attitude for… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“For when you realized that God is Everything you know that you've got to love everything no matter how bad it is, in the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And in the flush of the first few days of joy I confidently tell myself (not expecting what I'll do in three weeks only)… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what He did:… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
