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Only Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could…
- Because the only people for me are the mad ones.
- 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 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…
- I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of…
- I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless…
- Never dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to…
- Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really…
- I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life,…
- the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of…
- The only truth is music.
- You have absolutely no regard but yourself and your damned kicks. All you think about is what's hanging between your legs and how much money…
- 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…
- I pictured myself in a Denver bar that night, with all the gang, and in their eyes I would be strange and ragged and like…
- Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.
- The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
- God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was…
- As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk
- It's only through form that we can realize emptiness
- Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind,…
- I nudged myself closer to the ledge and closed my eyes and thought 'Oh what a life this is, why do we have to be…
- I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest,…
- There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
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