Jack Kerouac quotes - page 7

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet, celebrated as a leading figure of the Beat Generation. His spontaneous and freewheeling writing style influenced a new wave of literature and culture in the mid-20th century. He became famous for his novel "On the Road," which inspired countless writers and artists. Here are 286 of his quotes:

beautiful insane in the rain.

Jack Kerouac

It all ends in tears anyway.

Jack Kerouac

Listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world.

Jack Kerouac

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.

Jack Kerouac

The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view.

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Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.

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So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.

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And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.

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One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

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We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

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Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries.

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We agreed to love each other madly.

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I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

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The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.

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I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.

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It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.

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Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.

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And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.

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... we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.

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Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

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Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??

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all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.

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