Back Country Quotes by Jack Kerouac

More Quotes by Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac has 406 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• ...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the tale that's…
• I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
• The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder…
• Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed.
• It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
• Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of…
• Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.
• Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
• Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop.…
• No time for poetry but exactly what is.
• Details are the Life of Prose.
• Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

See all 406 quotes by Jack Kerouac »