“Only a silly sober fool could think it; imagine gloating over such nonsense (because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in… — 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
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
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do. — 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
Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. — 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
