Jack Kerouac quotes - page 9

I felt free and therefore I was free. (Jack Kerouac)
I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing. View quote
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Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy. View quote
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Bein Crazy is the least of my worries. View quote
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No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. View quote
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Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy. View quote
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Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live. View quote
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The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie. View quote
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Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become. View quote
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It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet. View quote
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Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk. (Jack Kerouac)
We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess--across the night... View quote
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The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October. View quote
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Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain... View quote
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Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea. View quote
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Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love. View quote
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We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301). View quote
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Everything is perfect on the street again, the world is permeated with roses of happiness all the time, but none of us know it. The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. View quote
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In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach. View quote
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Nevertheless we understood each other on all levels of madness... View quote
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Your art is the Holy Ghost blowing through your soul. (Jack Kerouac)
It was sad to see his tall figure receding in the dark as we drove away, just like the other figures in New York and New Orleans: they stand uncertainly underneth inmense skies, and everything about them is drowned. Where go? what do? what for? View quote
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Then I added "Blah," with a little grin, because I knew that shack and that mountain would understand what that meant, and turned and went on down the trail back to this world. View quote
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Members of the generation that came of age after World War II-Korean War who join in a relaxation of social and sexual tensions, and who espouse anti-regimentation, mystic-disaffiliation, and material-simplicity values, supposedly as a result of cold-war disillusionment. Coined by Jack Kerouac. View quote
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Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left. View quote
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