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title: "47 Jack Kerouac Quotes by 39 authors"
description: "Browse 47 Jack Kerouac quotes by 39 authors. Discover the best Jack Kerouac sayings and thoughts."
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> [Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dennis-miller/jack-kerouac-was-cool-because-he-had-no-idea-he-was/)

[Dennis Miller](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dennis-miller/)

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> [To be able to play Jack Kerouac or Sal Paradise, it's mad to me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rupert-penry-jones/to-be-able-to-play-jack-kerouac-or-sal-paradise-it-s-mad-to-me/)

[Rupert Penry-Jones](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rupert-penry-jones/)

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> [ As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of \[Jack\] Kerouac and others. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/as-a-woman-i-have-felt-encouraged-and-fed-by-and-nurtured-by-the-work/)

[Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/)

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> [“Most road trips in China these days are still more John Steinbeck than Jack Kerouac,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/most-road-trips-in-china-these-days-are-still-more-john-steinbeck/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gary-snyder/around-jack-kerouac-there-circulated-a-palpable-aura-of-fame-and-death/)

[Gary Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gary-snyder/)

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> [Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound extent.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-theroux/henry-miller-jack-kerouac-albert-camus-graham-greene-they-influenced/)

[Paul Theroux](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-theroux/)

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> [Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/jack-kerouac-did-what-he-most-wanted-to-do-he-wrote-great-prose-he/)

[Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/)

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> [ “I realized Jack \[Kerouac\] was deeply committed to writing. Kesey was just as deeply committed to living and experiencing the lives of… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sterling-lord/i-realized-jack-kerouac-was-deeply-committed-to-writing-kesey-was/)

[Sterling Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sterling-lord/)

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> [My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/kevin-kwan/my-golden-dream-was-to-move-to-new-york-and-live-in-the-village-and/)

[Kevin Kwan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/kevin-kwan/)

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> [Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/k-m-soehnlein/even-jack-kerouac-who-famously-said-first-thought-best-thought/)

[K. M. Soehnlein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/k-m-soehnlein/)

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> [“I just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, that kind of thing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jodi-lynn-anderson/i-just-love-crazy-people-like-this-murphy-said-jack-kerouac-people/)

[Jodi Lynn Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jodi-lynn-anderson/)

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> [I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/i-think-the-idea-of-the-lone-tormented-artist-which-we-can-apply-to/)

[Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/)

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> [Khaki trousers soon became the province of hipsters like Jack Kerouac and Miles Davis. They were taken to new heights by Ralph…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-stone/khaki-trousers-soon-became-the-province-of-hipsters-like-jack-kerouac/)

[Roger Stone](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-stone/)

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> [Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/amy-chozick/growing-up-in-san-antonio-i-was-the-dork-at-the-friday-night-football/)

[Amy Chozick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/amy-chozick/)

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> [“Bill said I was 'developing' at a rapid pace and gave me a different kind of book as a 'reward'. It's On…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stephen-chbosky/bill-said-i-was-developing-at-a-rapid-pace-and-gave-me-a-different/)

[Stephen Chbosky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stephen-chbosky/)

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> [When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tony-d-souza/when-i-grew-up-in-the-early-90s-the-new-world-wide-web-felt-like-a/)

[Tony D'Souza](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tony-d-souza/)

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> [I like California because it still has the glamour and romanticism and exoticism of a very foreign place. It was the place…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/pico-iyer/i-like-california-because-it-still-has-the-glamour-and-romanticism/)

[Pico Iyer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/pico-iyer/)

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> [I studied art at Queens College, taking very few courses in literature. But I've always loved reading poetry and grew up enjoying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/douglas-florian/i-studied-art-at-queens-college-taking-very-few-courses-in-literature/)

[Douglas Florian](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/douglas-florian/)

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> [“My brother was one of the bigger influences in my life, in as much as he told me I didn't have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bowie/my-brother-was-one-of-the-bigger-influences-in-my-life-in-as-much-as/)

[David Bowie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bowie/)

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> [The road has been viewed as a male turf. If you think of the classic "Odyssey," of, you know, classical literature or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gloria-steinem/the-road-has-been-viewed-as-a-male-turf-if-you-think-of-the-classic/)

[Gloria Steinem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gloria-steinem/)

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> [“It feels like I went right from pubescent to senior citizen. But what are you going to do? I'm lucky I caught…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jerry-stahl/it-feels-like-i-went-right-from-pubescent-to-senior-citizen-but-what/)

[Jerry Stahl](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jerry-stahl/)

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> [The truest form of any form of revolutionary left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, and Allan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bowie/the-truest-form-of-any-form-of-revolutionary-left-whatever-you-want/)

[David Bowie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bowie/)

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> [ “I was impressed with Jack \[Kerouac\]’s commitment to serious writing at the expense of everything else in his life. At a time… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sterling-lord/i-was-impressed-with-jack-kerouac-s-commitment-to-serious-writing-at/)

[Sterling Lord](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sterling-lord/)

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> [“Not aimless. Not in the least. It's just that my aims are different from most. There are plenty of aimless people on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-robbins/not-aimless-not-in-the-least-it-s-just-that-my-aims-are-different/)

[Tom Robbins](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-robbins/)

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> [“I become a transparent eyeball,” wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson in “Nature.” “I am nothing; I see all.” Lord Byron called it “the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/michael-finkel/i-become-a-transparent-eyeball-wrote-ralph-waldo-emerson-in-nature-i/)

[Michael Finkel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/michael-finkel/)

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> [If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-vowell/if-i-m-still-wistful-about-on-the-road-i-look-on-the-rest-of-the/)

[Sarah Vowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sarah-vowell/)

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> [“Here’s a thing Jack Kerouac said: ‘What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maggie-stiefvater/here-s-a-thing-jack-kerouac-said-what-is-that-feeling-when-you-re/)

[Maggie Stiefvater](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maggie-stiefvater/)

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> [“I visualized myself at Norma's house, stretched out on her couch, my eyes closed, and she at bthe paino playing a powerful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/i-visualized-myself-at-norma-s-house-stretched-out-on-her-couch-my/)

[Jack Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-kerouac/)

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> [Jack Kerouac seems to have been preoccupied with the question of duality from a very young age. He seemed to feel that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/jack-kerouac-seems-to-have-been-preoccupied-with-the-question-of/)

[Joyce Johnson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joyce-johnson/)

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> [“I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographical novel about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cory-doctorow/i-read-my-copy-of-on-the-road-and-dug-the-scenery-whizzing-past-on/)

[Cory Doctorow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cory-doctorow/)

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> [“Imperial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Broker with the attitude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sam-anderson-ny-magazine/imperial-is-like-robert-caro-s-the-power-broker-with-the-attitude-of/)

[Sam Anderson - NY Magazine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sam-anderson-ny-magazine/)

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> [The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E.E. Cummings, & Ginsberg's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bowie/the-truest-form-of-any-form-of-revolutionary-left-whatever-you-want-2/)

[David Bowie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-bowie/)

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> [“Did the tea-time of your soul Make you long for wilder days Did you never let Jack Kerouac Wash over you in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-thompson/did-the-tea-time-of-your-soul-make-you-long-for-wilder-days-did-you/)

[Richard Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-thompson/)

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> [Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hunter-s-thompson/jack-kerouac-influenced-me-quite-a-bit-as-a-writer-in-the-arab-sense/)

[Hunter S. Thompson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hunter-s-thompson/)

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> [“IF YOU WANT A DOG TO STOP KISSING YOU, turn your head away silently like another dog. —Jack Kerouac Some of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-lashner/if-you-want-a-dog-to-stop-kissing-you-turn-your-head-away-silently-2/)

[William Lashner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-lashner/)

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> [Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/edward-abbey/jack-kerouac-like-a-sick-refrigerator-worked-too-hard-at-keeping-cool/)

[Edward Abbey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/edward-abbey/)

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> [ \[Jack\] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me...he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-burroughs/jack-kerouac-was-writing-fiction-what-he-did-when-he-wrote-about-me/)

[William S. Burroughs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-s-burroughs/)

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> [I used to take 'Visions of Cody' by Jack Kerouac on tour all the time. I don't really love Kerouac, but that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamie-hince/i-used-to-take-visions-of-cody-by-jack-kerouac-on-tour-all-the-time-i/)

[Jamie Hince](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamie-hince/)

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> [I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-waldman/i-think-visions-of-cody-is-the-most-radical-book-in-terms-of-poetic/)

[Anne Waldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-waldman/)

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> [“Like punk rock, like Jackson Pollock, like Jack Kerouac, it was truly human, a mix of perfect beauty and cathartic error.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/yann-martel/like-punk-rock-like-jackson-pollock-like-jack-kerouac-it-was-truly/)

[Yann Martel](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/yann-martel/)

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## Top authors on Jack Kerouac

- [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b004/author-anne-waldman-13865.jpg) Anne Waldman 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/jack-kerouac/anne-waldman/)

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                        "text": "“Not aimless. Not in the least. It's just that my aims are different from most. There are plenty of aimless people on the road, all right. People who hitchhike from kicks to kicks, restlessly, searching for something: looking for America, as Jack Kerouac put it, or looking for themselves, or looking for some relation between America and themselves. But I'm not looking for anything. I've found something.\" \"What is it that you've found?\" \"Hitchhiking.”",
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                        "text": "If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to journalism and San Francisco.",
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                        "text": "“Here’s a thing Jack Kerouac said: ‘What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?—it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.’ If you’re missing someone tonight, know that I, Diablo Diablo, am, too. It’s an enormous sky out there with a lot of stars above it and a lot of folks underneath it, and all of us, stars and human, are missing someone in the dark. But I, Diablo Diablo, think that if we’re all out there missing someone, that means that we’re all really together on that one note, aren’t we? So none of us are really alone as long as we’re lonely.”",
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                        "text": "“I visualized myself at Norma's house, stretched out on her couch, my eyes closed, and she at bthe paino playing a powerful movement from some Symphony in D major by Beethoven, by Brahms, by Sibelius, by Tschaikowsky, by anybody, by Thomas Wolfe, by Ernest Hemmingway, by William Saroyan, by Jack Kerouac, by George Apostolos, by Sebastian the Prince, by Love, by Earth, by Fire, by Water, by All, Everything, Love you and I, me myself, egotist, Earth, Fire, a mad and wild concoction of all Life, and of the all-embracing All.”",
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                        "text": "“Imperial is like Robert Caro’s The Power Broker with the attitude of Mike Davis’s City of Quartz, if Robert Caro had been raised in an abandoned grain silo by a band of feral raccoons, and if Mike Davis were the communications director of a heavily armed libertarian survivalist cult, and if the two of them had somehow managed to stitch John McPhee’s cortex onto the brain of a Gila monster, which they then sent to the Mexican border to conduct ten years of immersive research, and also if they wrote the entire manuscript on dried banana leaves with a toucan beak dipped in hobo blood, and then the book was line-edited during a 36-hour peyote séance by the ghosts of John Steinbeck, Jack London, and Sinclair Lewis, with 200 pages of endnotes faxed over by Henry David Thoreau’s great-great-great-great grandson from a concrete bunker under a toxic pond behind a maquiladora, and if at the last minute Herman Melville threw up all over the manuscript, rendering it illegible, so it had to be re-created from memory by a community-theater actor doing his best impression of Jack Kerouac. With photographs by Dorothea Lange. (Viking has my full blessing to use that as a blurb.)”",
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