“... this girl I was SEEKING to get involved with as if not enough trouble already or other old romances hadn't taught… — 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
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“It was a joy, though, to get down into the valley and lose sight of all that open sky space underneath everything… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink. Get to San… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Dammit, that yodel of triumph of yours was the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in my life. I wish I had… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He is a believer in life and he wants to go to Heaven but because he loves life so he embraces it… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He would have had to roam the entire United States and look in every garbage pail from coast to coast before he… — 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 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
“I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life - This part is my part of the movie,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Something, someone, some spirit was pursuing all of us across the desert of life and was bound to catch us before we… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“It seems to me now that my life is writing, be it only words without meaning...When I am 33 I shall put… — 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
