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America Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the…
- Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting…
- 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…
- Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
- Because I cannot write my native language and have no native home anymore, and am amazed by that horrible homelessness of all French-Canadian s abroad…
- Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.
- It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead…
- We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we…
- I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.
- This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
- Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back
- I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.
- my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.
- We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell
More America Quotes
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price. — Arthur Ashe
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- Is there an equality of power between America and Iraq? Definitely not; however, the Iraqi people are standing fast and are defending… — Bashar al-Assad
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it.… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon