Jack Kerouac quotes - page 4

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 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!' (Jack Kerouac)
One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world. View quote
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You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name. View quote
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Believe in the holy contour of life. View quote
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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 the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die? View quote
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What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. View quote
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The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream. View quote
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A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. View quote
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Houses are full of things that gather dust. View quote
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The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words. View quote
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The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together. (Jack Kerouac)
They build their own Hells. View quote
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For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me. View quote
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Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing. View quote
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Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off. View quote
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It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night. View quote
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I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down. View quote
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If you own a rug you own too much. View quote
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My shoes are clean from walking in the rain. View quote
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Nothing ever happened - Not even this. View quote
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It is possible for the human spirit to win after all. (Jack Kerouac)
It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy. View quote
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I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn. View quote
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It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing. View quote
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I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show. View quote
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