With joy realize for the first time thinking just not thinking-so I don't have to think anymore. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?' — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short. — 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
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
and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the… — 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 told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The secret of this kind of climbing, is like Zen. Don't think. Just dance along. It's the easiest thing in the world,… — 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
“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
The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it]… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever. — 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
But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I can't think of anybody...who knows the sum and substance of what I know and feel and cry about in my secret… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Then it's goodbye, Sangsara for me Besides, girls aren't as good as they look And Samadhi is better than you think When… — 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
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