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Jack Kerouac Quotes - Page 4

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This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

4th Of July, Thinking, America

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.165, Penguin

All of life is a foreign country.

Life, Country, Travel

1949 Letter, 24 Jun.

LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.

Winter, Cities, Feelings

Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

If you tell a true story, you can't be wrong.

Inspirational, Stories, True Story

On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.

Wisdom, Stars, Spring

Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.170, BookBaby

The road must eventually lead to the whole world.

Travel, World, Whole

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.297, Penguin

Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

Art, Feelings, Hiding

Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

Wisdom, Want, Panic

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

Desolation, desolation, I owe so much to desolation.

Desolation

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

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

Being Alone, Men, Boredom

Jack Kerouac (2007). “Lonesome Traveler”, p.118, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

listen to the silence inside the illusion of the world, and you will remember the lesson you forgot

Silence, World, Lessons

Jack Kerouac (1999). “Selected Letters, 1957-1969”, Viking Adult

I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual night, the hell of it, the senseless emptiness.

Dream, Wisdom, Morning

Jack Kerouac (2011). “On the Road”, p.289, Penguin UK

It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies

Goodbye, Travel, Crazy

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.237, Penguin

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

Wisdom, Children, Stories

It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.

Falling In Love, Too Much, Helping

You'd be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday

Wisdom, Yesterday, Littles

Jack Kerouac (2013). “Book of Haikus”, p.65, Penguin

Life is life, and kind is kind

Kind, Life Is

Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.129, Penguin

Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.

Photography, Taken, Rainy Day

You guys are going somewhere or just going?

Guy

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Wisdom, Failure, Passion

My witness is the empty sky.

Travel, Aquarius, Sky

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

All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

Wisdom, Hands, Wheels

Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.166, Penguin

Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.

Score

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.228, Penguin

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).

Dream, Frenzy

Jack Kerouac (1976). “On the Road”, p.301, Penguin

Believe in the holy contour of life.

Believe, Relaxation, Holy

Jack Kerouac (2016). “The Unknown Kerouac: Rare, Unpublished, & Newly Translated Writings”, p.217, Library of America

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