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Said Quotes by Jack Kerouac
- John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said…
- 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…
- 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…
- galatea was a serious girl. she was pale and looked like tears all over. big ed passed his hand through his hair and said hello.…
- And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes…
- His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was…
- 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…
- You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere…
- I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.
- My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
- What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls. I don't know," she said.…
- Her little shoulders drove me mad; I hugged her and hugged her. And she loved it. 'I love love,' she said, closing her eyes. I…
- Now the mountains were getting that pink tinge, I mean the rocks, they were just solid rock covered with the atoms of dust accumulated there…
- Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?
- Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea, said Japhy. Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy, the second is…
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