Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more". — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
With joy realize for the first time thinking just not thinking-so I don't have to think anymore. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And there in the blue air I saw for the first time, far off, the great snowy tops of the Rocky Mountains.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we… — 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