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One Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark…
- I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.
- 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.'…
- 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…
- 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.
- 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…
- I loved the way she said 'LA'; I love the way everybody says 'LA' on the Coast; it's their one and only golden town when…
- 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,…
- Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant…
- One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
- 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…
- Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends…
- She spoke of evenings in the country making popcorn on the porch. Once this would have gladdened my heart but because her heart was not…
- The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is…
- 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…
- The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved…
- One fast move or I'm gone,' I realize, gone the way of the last three years of drunken hopelessness which is a physical and spiritual…
- ..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was
- One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
- In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely…
- I believed in a good home, in sane and sound living, in good food, good times, work, faith and hope. I have always believed in…
- Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means…
- And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.
- I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead, my brother dead,…
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