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Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 10

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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.

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.

Done, World, Dharma Bums

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.122, Penguin

The taste of rain -- Why kneel?

Rain, Taste

Jack Kerouac (1995). “Book of Blues”, p.78, Penguin

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.

Girl, Wisdom, Drinking

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.183, Penguin

Absolutely no way to escape enigmans.

Way

But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

Expression, Worry, Soul

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

Wisdom, Forgiving, Sin

Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.

Independent, Men, Paris

Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.152, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

Tunes, Maestro, Teach

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.161, Penguin

I think it's all lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.

Thinking, Lovely, Hallucinations

"The Dharma Bums".

And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

Stars, Fades, Dies

Jack Kerouac (1995). “Desolation Angels”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

Passion, Heart, Men

"Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence

Fate, Psychosis, Violence

Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.

Drunk, Mind, Grew

Jack Kerouac (2007). “Satori in Paris and Pic”, p.22, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

a fool forgetting all the ideals and joys I knew before, in my recent years of drinking and disappointment, what does he care if he hasn't got any money: he doesn't need any money, all he needs is his rucksack with those little plastic bags of dried food and a good pair of shoes and off he goes and enjoys the privileges of a millionaire in surroundings like this.

Disappointment, Drinking, Years

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.77, Penguin

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!'

Thinking, Trying, Generations

Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.

Home, October, Going Home

Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.129, Penguin

This was a manuscript of the night we couldn’t read.

Night, Manuscripts

Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

Will you love me in December as you do in May?

Love, Wisdom, May

Jack Kerouac (1959). “The Town and the City”

At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.

Eye, Night, Mud

Jack Kerouac (2013). “Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)”, p.36, BookBaby

The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.

Beautiful, Hipster, Crazy

Jack Kerouac, Ann Charters (1995). “The portable Jack Kerouac”, Penguin Group USA

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

Kindness, Practice, Heaven

"Visions of Gerard". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1963.

It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.

Writing, Way, Inspiration To Write

Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled - Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon field; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments.

Beautiful, Air, Color

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do.

Cat, Realizing

Jack Kerouac (2010). “La scrittura dell'eternità dorata”, p.34, Edizioni Mondadori

We agreed to love each other madly.

Love Each Other

Jack Kerouac (1991). “On the road”, Penguin USA

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