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
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
Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I loved the way she said 'LA'; I love the way everybody says 'LA' on the Coast; it's their one and only… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
galatea was a serious girl. she was pale and looked like tears all over. big ed passed his hand through his hair… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat? — 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
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
