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The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

Jack Kerouac
Joy, Serenity, Tea
Jack Kerouac (1986). “The Dharma Bums”, p.67, Penguin

I have been writing my heart out all my life, but only getting a living out of it now.... ... it's not a question of the merit of art, but a question of spontaneity and sincerity and joy I say. I would like everybody in the world to tell his full life confession and tell it his own way and then we'd have something to read in our old age.

Jack Kerouac
Art, Writing, Joy

Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.

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

Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

Jack Kerouac
Notebook, Joy, Secret

And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

Jack Kerouac
Life, Thinking, Joy
"The Portable Jack Kerouac".

Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.

Jack Kerouac
Talking, Joy, Soul
"On the Road". Book by Jack Kerouac, Ch. 5, 1957.

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

Jack Kerouac
Joy, Feels, Ups & Downs
Jack Kerouac (2012). “Big Sur (Annotated)”, p.98, BookBaby

And this is the way a novel gets written, in ignorance, fear, sorrow, madness, and a kind of psychotic happiness as an incubator for the wonders being born.

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

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