Is it the damned fool, who, at that dark moment, laughs courage right into you — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“The mambo never let up for a moment, it frenzied on like an endless journey in the jungle (288).” — 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
“This can't go on all the time...all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.” — 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
Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I want to be like him. He's never hung-up, he goes every direction, he lets it all out, he knows time, he… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Whatever anyone does,/ anyone says, in the/ past, now, everything, let/ it bounce off the rock/ of yr gladness (yr mirror)” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He has to blow across bridges and come back and do it with such infinite feeling soul-exploratory for the tune of the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And so we picked up our bags, he the trunk with his one good arm and I the rest, and staggered to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember especially because the transitions from life to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and… — 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
“...poor examples because of mechanical needs of typing, of the flow of river sounds, words, dark, leading to the future and attesting… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I remember him standing under a streetlamp. 'Just as we passed that other lamp I was going to tell you a further… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Everything is possible. I am God, I am Buddha, I am imperfect Ray Smith, all at the same time, I am empty… — 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
“They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past and go into the never-ending… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He's like a little boy again now for the first time in years because he's like let out of school, no job,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Now you just dig them in front. They have worries, they’re counting the miles, they are thinking about where to sleep tonight,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And here for the first time in my life I saw my beloved Mississippi River, dry in the summer haze, low water,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I bless you, all living things, I bless you in the endless past, I bless you in the endless present, I bless… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad.… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“That Rollo Greb is the greatest, most wonderful of all. That's what I was trying to tell you - that's what I… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“Pretty soon...do you realize there'll be so many additional childhoods and pasts with everybody writing about them everybody'll give up reading in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes… — 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
