I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Maybe that's a haiku, maybe not, it might be a little too complicated," said Japhy. "A real haiku's gotta be as simple… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Y de pronto sentí lo que siempre siento cuando trato de explicar el Dharma a la gente, a Alvah, a mi madre,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Why is he so mad about white tiled sinks and ‘kitchen machinery’ he calls it? People have good hearts whether or not… — 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
“See the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other. — 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
