“For the first four years of my life, while he lived, I was not Ti Jean Duluoz, I was Gerard, the world… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The old tree brooded over me silently, a living thing. I heard a mouse snoring in the garden weeds. The rooftops of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“All life is but a skull-bone and A rack of ribs through which we keep passing food & fuel- just so's we… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. — 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
“So even that marvelous, long remembrances of life all the time in the world to just sit there or lie there or… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class nonidentity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I could have made my whole life like that morning just on the strength of pure understanding and willingness to live and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I know everything's alright but I want proof and the Buddhas and the Virgin Marys are there reminding me of the solemn… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Why did God make all this all so decayable and dieable and harmable and wants to make me realize and scream?” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Everything was fine with the Zen Lunatics, the nut wagon was too far away to hear us. But there was a wisdom… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“In a sense, I'm mad (and withdrawn from life) while they're sane, human, normal - but in another sense, I speak from… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Sometimes during the night I'd look at my poor sleeping mother cruelly crucified there in the American night because of no-money, no-hope-of-money,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“You spend a whole life of non-interference with the wishes of others, including politicians and the rich, and nobody bothers you and… — 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
