“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
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'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
"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. — 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
“How is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time! — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“... 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
Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the… — 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
“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
“Diamond Sutra says, 'Make no formed conceptions about the realness of existence nor about the unrealness of existence," or words like that.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep… — 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
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and… — 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
...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
The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“he saw that all the struggles of life were incessant, laborious, painful, that nothing was done quickly, without labor, that it had… — 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
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
I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth,… — 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
“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
“a choleric, red-faced, pudgy hater of everything, who could turn on the warmest and most charming smile in the world when real… — 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
I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive… — 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
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
“And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words… — 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
“O hell, I'm sick of life - If I had any guts I'd drown myself in that tiresome water but that wouldn't… — 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
“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
“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
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
...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
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not… — 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
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
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“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
“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
“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
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
“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“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
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
“The hot water pools are steaming, Fagan and Monsanto and the others are all sitting peacefully up to their necks, they're all naked, but… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share
