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title: "77 Kerouac Quotes by 49 authors"
description: "Browse 77 Kerouac quotes by 49 authors. Discover the best Kerouac sayings and thoughts."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea8/jack-kerouac-182_humor_galatea-dunkel-was-a-tenacious-loser-200_2003295.jpg"
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> [“Galatea Dunkel was a tenacious loser.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/galatea-dunkel-was-a-tenacious-loser/)

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

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> [“What's Your Road, Man?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/what-s-your-road-man/)

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

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> [“Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-collison/fuck-kerouac-he-would-write-his-own-story/)

Linda Collison

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> [“Everything from Colette to Kerouac.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jacqueline-onassis/everything-from-colette-to-kerouac/)

Jacqueline Onassis

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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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> [“Paradise!' he screamed. 'The one and only indispensable Paradise.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/paradise-he-screamed-the-one-and-only-indispensable-paradise/)

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

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> [The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hanif-kureishi/the-cruellest-thing-you-can-do-to-kerouac-is-reread-him-at-thirty/)

[Hanif Kureishi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hanif-kureishi/)

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> [Kerouac was this kid who exemplified something happening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/howard-rheingold/kerouac-was-this-kid-who-exemplified-something-happening/)

[Howard Rheingold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/howard-rheingold/)

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> [ I knew \[Timothy\] Leary, but barely knew, didn't really know Jan \[Kerouac\]. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-burroughs/i-knew-timothy-leary-but-barely-knew-didn-t-really-know-jan-kerouac/)

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

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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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> [ “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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> [Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-burroughs/kerouac-and-i-are-not-real-at-all-the-only-thing-about-a-writer-is/)

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

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> [My reasoning, if one can call it that, was inflamed by the scatter shot passions of youth and a literary diet overly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-krakauer/my-reasoning-if-one-can-call-it-that-was-inflamed-by-the-scatter-shot/)

[Jon Krakauer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-krakauer/)

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> [Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/frank-o-hara/kerouac-you-re-ruining-american-poetry-o-hara-o-hara-that-s-more-than/)

[Frank O'Hara](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/frank-o-hara/)

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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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> [I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-ginsberg/i-think-it-was-when-i-ran-into-kerouac-and-burroughs-when-i-was-17/)

[Allen Ginsberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-ginsberg/)

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> [Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-burroughs/kerouac-opened-a-million-coffee-bars-and-sold-a-million-pairs-of/)

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

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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 was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joyce-johnson/i-was-always-aware-that-jack-loved-women-not-only-for-their-bodies/)

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

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> [I was pretty partial to Kerouac and I also liked Flannery O'Connor and the Southern Gothic writing and local writers, like Jesse…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tyler-childers/i-was-pretty-partial-to-kerouac-and-i-also-liked-flannery-o-connor/)

[Tyler Childers](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tyler-childers/)

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> [If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ben-gibbard/if-you-tell-certain-people-that-you-like-kerouac-they-assume-that-s/)

[Ben Gibbard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ben-gibbard/)

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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 was an absolute idiot, wearing polo-necks, reading Kerouac, watching Woody Allen movies, and jazz fitted right into all of that. My…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jamie-cullum/i-was-an-absolute-idiot-wearing-polo-necks-reading-kerouac-watching/)

[Jamie Cullum](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jamie-cullum/)

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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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> [“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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> [Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/al-stewart/do-you-remember-the-church-across-the-sands-you-stood-outside-and/)

[Al Stewart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/al-stewart/)

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> [“For Kerouac, the embodiment of American Zen was Gary Snyder, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Buddhist poet and essayist, who he fictionalized as Japhy…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-dinerstein/for-kerouac-the-embodiment-of-american-zen-was-gary-snyder-the/)

Joel Dinerstein

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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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> [“I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-kerouac/i-sit-down-and-say-and-i-run-all-my-friends-and-relatives-and-enemies/)

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

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> [“We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sarah-vowell/we-all-grew-up-those-of-us-who-took-on-the-road-to-heart-we-came-to/)

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

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> [“Yet the voice could take fright . This Kathy Kerouac foresaw only too well when syllables suddenly started coming out of her…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/yet-the-voice-could-take-fright-this-kathy-kerouac-foresaw-only-too/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

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> [“After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent countless kids on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-s-burroughs/after-1957-on-the-road-sold-a-trillion-levis-and-a-million-espresso/)

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

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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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> [“Kathy Kerouac knew the power of her voice. It was, she said, her 'golden thing,' an amulet protecting her against all disorders…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/nicole-brossard/kathy-kerouac-knew-the-power-of-her-voice-it-was-she-said-her-golden/)

[Nicole Brossard](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/nicole-brossard/)

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> [I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-bowie/i-was-studying-tibetan-buddhism-when-i-was-quite-young-again/)

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

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> [“Capote's rejoinder to Kerouac's assertion that he never needed to edit his work…"But, that's not writing . That's typing.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/truman-capote/capote-s-rejoinder-to-kerouac-s-assertion-that-he-never-needed-to/)

[Truman Capote](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/truman-capote/)

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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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> [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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