All Jack Kerouac Quotes
- Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs… All
- Genius gives birth, talent delivers. Birth
- I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other. All
- Walking on water wasn't built in a day. Built
- They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that… America
- Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? America
- So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you. Easy
- But yet, but yet, woe, woe unto those who think that the Beat Generation means crime, delinquency, immorality, amorality ... woe unto those who attack… Amorality
- John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said… Around Trying
- Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could… Able
- Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind, Bottom
- Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition, Funny
- No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge Dignity
- Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it. Ain T
- Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just 'talents.'… Amazes
- Because the only people for me are the mad ones. Inspirational
- Bop began with Jazz but one afternoon somewhere on a sidewalk maybe 1939, 1940, Dizzy Gillespie or Charlie Parker or Thelonious Monk was walking past… Afternoon
- We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move. All
- With joy realize for the first time thinking just not thinking-so I don't have to think anymore. Anymore
- The whole mad swirl of everything that was to come began then. Began
- I told Terry I was leaving. She had been thinking about it all night and was resigned to it. Emotionlessly she kissed me in the… All
- Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind. Already Exists
- I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day… Art
- You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality. Chaos
- Everything is ecstasy inside. We just don't know it because of our thinking-minds. But in our true blissful essence of mind [it] is known that… Alright