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

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

Jack Kerouac

Wisdom, Children, Stories

Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.

Jack Kerouac

Sweet, Children, Father

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

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.

Jack Kerouac

Children, Men, Civilization

Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.88, Penguin

Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent it's all the same.

Jack Kerouac

God, Faith, Children

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