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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
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Yesterday
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More quotes by Jack Kerouac
They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.
Jack Kerouac
I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Jack Kerouac
Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
Jack Kerouac
Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.
Jack Kerouac
My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
Jack Kerouac
The air was so sweet in New Orleans it seemed to come in soft bandannas and you could smell the river and really smell the people, and mud, and molasses, and every kind of tropical exhalation, with your nose suddenly removed from the dry ices of a Northern winter.
Jack Kerouac
There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
Jack Kerouac
Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH.
Jack Kerouac
I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.
Jack Kerouac
You seek identity in the midst of indistinguishab le chaos, in sprawling nameless reality.
Jack Kerouac
At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will.
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Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score.
Jack Kerouac
I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
Jack Kerouac
Details are the Life of Prose.
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I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
Jack Kerouac
Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
Jack Kerouac
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
Jack Kerouac
My life is a vast inconsequential epic.
Jack Kerouac
Because anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just talents.
Jack Kerouac
and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.
Jack Kerouac
