Quote by Jack Kerouac Download Open image ““This was a manuscript of the night we couldn't read" - Sal Paradise, On The Road”” — Jack Kerouac ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“In a sense these books on walks for their own sakes are the literature of paradise, the story of what can happen when nothing profound is wrong, and so the protagonist—healthy, solvent, uncommitted—can set out seeking minor adventure. In paradise, the only things of interest are our own thoughts, the character of our companions, and the incidents and appearance of… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share
“When I began writing The Night Bookmobile, it was a story about a woman's secret life as a reader. As I worked it also… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“I had always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. - Blindness ” — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“There, stacked high on his desk, was a tower of paper. Thick slabs of manuscript. Slush. Unsolicited, unagented, unloved. This was where dreams came… — Will Ferguson Copy Share Image
“The thought of people reading in the sun, on a beach, tempts me to recommend dark books, written in the shadow of loneliness, despair,… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“Translate into words for me the sighings of the wind through the forest and the withdrawal of the sea down the pebbly beach and… — F.B. Meyer Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“For when you realized that God is Everything you know that you've got to love everything no matter how bad it is, in the… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“I'm an idealist who has outgrown my idealism I have nothing to do the rest of my life but do it and the rest… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“And in the flush of the first few days of joy I confidently tell myself (not expecting what I'll do in three weeks only)… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“For the next week that was all I heard - manana, a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn't hate what He did:… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
