Jack Kerouac quotes - page 10

But O Sarina come with me to my bed of woes, let me love you gently in the night, long time, we got all night, till dawn, till Juliet's rising sun and Romeo's vial sink, till I have slaked my thirst of Samsara at your portal rosy petal lips and left saviour juice in your rosy flesh garden to melt and dry and ululate another baby for the void, come sweet Sarina in my naughty arms, be dirty in my clean milk, and I'll detest the defecate I leave in your milky empowered cyst-and-vulva chamber, your cloacan clara file-hool through which slowly drool the hall-gyzm, to castles in your hassel flesh and I'll protect you trembling thighs against my heart and kiss your lips and cheeks and Lair and love you everywhere and that'll be that... (Jack Kerouac)
(...) who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance? View quote
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All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile. View quote
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(...) comes under the influence of old French Fairies who accuse him of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth. View quote
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Once I was young and had so much more orientation and could talk with nervous intelligence about everything and with clarity and without as much literary preambling at this; in other words this is the story of an unself-confident man, at the same time of an egomaniac, naturally, facetious won't do−just to start at the beginning and let the truth seep out, that's what I'll do-. View quote
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I could give you a list a mile long of the homosexuals in the arts but there's no point in making a big tzimis about a relatively harmless and cool state of affairs - Each man to his own tastes. View quote
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If only I had the magic self of babyhood when I remembered what it was like before I was born, I wouldn't worry about death now knowing both to be the same empty dream. View quote
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The reason I'm so bitter and, as I said, in anguish, nowadays, or one of the reasons, is that everybody's begun to lie and because they lie they assume that I lie too: they overlook the fact that I remember very well many things (of course I've forgotten some), but I do believe that lying is a sin, unless it's an innocent lie based on lack of memory, certainly the giving of false evidence and being a false witness is a mortal sin, but what I mean is, insofar as lying has become so prevalent in the world today (thanks to Marxian Dialectal propaganda and Comintern techniques among other causes) that, when a man tells the truth, everybody, looking in the mirror and seeing a liar, assumes that the truth-teller is lying too. View quote
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I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility. View quote
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As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven. View quote
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I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all. (Jack Kerouac)
On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word. View quote
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Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score. View quote
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I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being. View quote
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After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him. View quote
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My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad. View quote
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Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors. View quote
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...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing. View quote
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When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom. View quote
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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. View quote
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Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes. (Jack Kerouac)
I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something. View quote
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and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too. A long way to go. View quote
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By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's disapproval and I felt glad and slept well. View quote
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This world is the movie of what everything is, it is one movie, made of the same stuff throughout, belonging to nobody, which is what everything is. View quote
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