Kerouac Quotes
25 quotes by 20 authors
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Kerouac opened a million coffee bars and sold a million pairs of Levis to both sexes. Woodstock rises from his pages.
— William S. Burroughs
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Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
— Edward Abbey
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Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just fall into a…
— Christopher McDougall
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A shelf of classics for our young adults: Tolkien, Hesse, Casteneda, Kerouac, Salinger, Tom Robbins, and _The Last Whole Earth Catalog_.
— Edward Abbey
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I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys
— Harvey Pekar
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The actual materials are important... A book at the nightstand is important-a light you can get at-or a flashlight as Kerouac had a brakeman's latern.
— Allen Ginsberg
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Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth's four volume Haiku became especially popular at this time [1950's] because his translations were based on the assumption that the…
— Reginald Horace Blyth
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Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your…
— Al Stewart
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Kerouac and I are not real at all. The only thing about a writer is that he has written, and not his so-called life. 'And…
— William S. Burroughs
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I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then…
— Garrett Hedlund
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When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes…
— Tony D'Souza
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I think it was when I ran into Kerouac and Burroughs - when I was 17 - that I realized I was talking through an…
— Allen Ginsberg
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America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen before. The American adventure has always been about people forgetting their former selves…
— Jaron Lanier
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Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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I wasn't trying to be an outlaw writer. I never heard of that term; somebody else made it up. But we were all outside the…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Jack Kerouac was cool because he had no idea he was.
— Dennis Miller
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Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara. O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac
— Frank O'Hara
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See, you can't rewrite, 'cause to rewrite is to deceive and lie, and you betray your own thoughts. To rethink the flow and the rhythm,…
— David Cronenberg
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If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris…
— Sarah Vowell
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The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.
— Hanif Kureishi
Who Wrote These Kerouac Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 25 Kerouac Quotes as follows: