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
all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where,… — 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
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete… — 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
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