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From Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- 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…
- Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind,
- 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…
- I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are…
- Whenever spring comes to New York I can't stand the suggestion of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I've…
- Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to…
- The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas; and you could smell the river and really smell the…
- You don't realize what a strain it is on the nerves to write or think-of-writing all day long, and to sleep full of nervous dreams,…
- I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night,…
- What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the…
- Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.
- In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the…
- I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I…
- Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.
- When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
- Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.
- I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were…
- Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They…
- My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.
- It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now —…
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