One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls. — 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
...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
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
What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
You aren't ever going to be anything in this world unless you do what you want to do, when you want to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off. — 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
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
...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree… — 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
Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now… ... it's not… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?" But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use… — 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
I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from… — 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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