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

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

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

She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.

Jack Kerouac
Soul, Firsts, Lips
Jack Kerouac (2013). “Maggie Cassidy (Annotated)”, p.17, BookBaby

...most of the time we were alone and mixing up our souls ever more and ever more till it would be terribly hard to say good-by.

Jack Kerouac
Soul, Mixing, Would Be
Jack Kerouac (1957). “On the Road”, Viking Press

But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end.

Jack Kerouac
Expression, Worry, Soul
Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?

Jack Kerouac
Pride, Soul, Looks
Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.219, Penguin

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.

...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes surely do prophesy and indicate the loveliest of souls.

Jack Kerouac
Eye, Soul, Lovely
Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

All the souls to explore! - It's not so necessary to love, really, as it is to settle something deep with all of those who really matter. Love and hate are the same things, differently sifted through personal... pride, or what have you... personal pride or even just personal-ness.

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

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

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