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Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 2

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I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

Light, Flames, Forever

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.

Life, Lying, Thinking

Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

Dream, Wisdom, Yoga

"Lonesome Traveler".

Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.

Good Night, Goodnight, Dream

The only truth is music.

Music, Wisdom, Inspirational Music

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

Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

Wisdom, Phones, People

Pain or love or danger makes you real again.

Wisdom, Pain, Real

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.96, Penguin

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

Spiritual, Wisdom, Real

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.206, Penguin

I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.

Wisdom, Leaving, World

What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?

Wisdom, Stores

Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.22, Grove Press

For life is holy and every moment is precious.

Suitcases, Life Is, Moments

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.156, Penguin

So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.

Long, Easy, Ends

Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.157, Penguin

I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.

Life, Giving Up, Yelling

Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

Drinking, Drunk, Enjoy Life

As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.

Clouds, Utah, Sky

Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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

Wisdom, Teacher, Views

I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

Writing, Dark, Simple

No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge.

Love You, Loss, Forever

"Selected letters, 1940-1956".

I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.

Swimming, Rivers, Hardship

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

Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.

Stars, Night, Thinking

Jack Kerouac (1960). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.131, Grove Press

colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.

Stars, School, Dark

Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.39, Penguin

My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.

Rain, Shoes, Clean

Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.8, Penguin

Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.

Waiting, Soul, Too Much

Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

Wisdom, Men, Giving

Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.220, Library of America

Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much.

Happens

Jack Kerouac (2004). “Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954”, Viking Press

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