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Jack Kerouac Quotes about Wisdom - Page 3

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We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.

Goodbye, Wisdom, Love Is

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.192, Penguin

Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.

Girl, Wisdom, Drinking

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.183, Penguin

Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.

Wisdom, Forgiving, Sin

Will you love me in December as you do in May?

Love, Wisdom, May

Jack Kerouac (1959). “The Town and the City”

I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.

Wisdom, Sleep, Interesting

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.148, Penguin

The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

Wisdom, Long, Pages

Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.83, Penguin

Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.

Wisdom, Men, Road Life

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

For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

Wisdom, Weather, Firsts

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.352, Penguin

When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.

Wisdom, Positivity, Scripture

Jack Kerouac, “The Scripture Of The Golden Eternity”

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.

Wisdom, Mind, Details

Jack Kerouac (1958). “The Subterraneans”, p.58, Grove Press

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

Wisdom, Home, Tired

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.124, Penguin

They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.

Wisdom, Sleep, Thinking

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.279, Penguin

What difference does it make after all?--anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what’s heaven? what’s earth? All in the mind.

Wisdom, Men, Differences

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

...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.

Wisdom, Mean, Worry

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.219, Penguin

The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death. But who wants to die?

Wisdom, Sweet, Hate

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.211, Penguin

Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.

Wisdom, Silly, World

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.285, Penguin

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