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Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth

Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it.

Jack Kerouac
Sadness, Eye, Dark
"On the Road".

To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

Jack Kerouac
Children, Vapor, Innocent
Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.244, Penguin

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.

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

Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy

Jack Kerouac
Mean, Buddhism, Simple
Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.34, Penguin

Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.

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

We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?" But I could go and talk on 5, 10, 20 minutes about is there a world, because there is really no world, cause sometimes I'm walkin' on the ground and I see right through the ground. And there is no world. And you'll find out.

Jack Kerouac
Tonight, World, Causes
"Is There A Beat Generation?". Forum at Hunter College, New York, November 8, 1958.

And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.

Jack Kerouac
Daughter, Nice, Home
Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?

Jack Kerouac
Girl, Feels, Studious
Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.42, Penguin

The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be "supervised."

Jack Kerouac
Nice, Sleep, Vision
Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.121, Penguin

At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night.

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

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