“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and… — 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… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“we got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“When I got better I realized what a rat he was, but then I had to understand the impossible complexity of his… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like… — 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
...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Dean took out other pictures. I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now, and the attacks… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I wished I could explain it to those I loved, my mother, to Japhy, but there just weren't any words to describe… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“„You know women,“ confided the fruitseller, „they love little cats... they always love the helpless things. But when it comes to men,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I never dwelt on the dark farcical furious real life of this roaring working world, wow.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And this is not the happiness of a magazine writer who sends in his gay little philosophy of life to the editor… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself… — 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
