Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I'd rather be thin than famous but I'm fat paste that in your broadway show
Jack Kerouac
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac
Kerouac
Jean-Louis Kerouac
Fats
Famous
Rather
Show
Shows
Paste
Broadway
Thin
More quotes by Jack Kerouac
Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind.
Jack Kerouac
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Jack Kerouac
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
Jack Kerouac
February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.
Jack Kerouac
When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.
Jack Kerouac
Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do.
Jack Kerouac
Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.
Jack Kerouac
Pretty girls make graves
Jack Kerouac
The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me
Jack Kerouac
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.
Jack Kerouac
I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.
Jack Kerouac
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
If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?
Jack Kerouac
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
Jack Kerouac
Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.
Jack Kerouac
His friends said, Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there? and Bull said, I like it because it's ugly. All his life was in that line.
Jack Kerouac
You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.
Jack Kerouac
I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.
Jack Kerouac
Lying mouth to mouth, kiss to kiss in the pillow dark, loin to loin in unbelievable surrendering sweetness so distant from all our mental fearful abstractions it makes you wonder why men have termed God antisexual somehow (p. 148)
Jack Kerouac
Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.
Jack Kerouac