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Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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More quotes by 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
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
It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies
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
equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha
Jack Kerouac
Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love.
Jack Kerouac
So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
Jack Kerouac
Pain or love or danger makes you real again.
Jack Kerouac
And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.
Jack Kerouac
I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing.
Jack Kerouac
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
Jack Kerouac
My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.
Jack Kerouac
Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
Jack Kerouac
I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
Jack Kerouac
I felt free and therefore I was free.
Jack Kerouac
And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.
Jack Kerouac
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
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Jack Kerouac
I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.
Jack Kerouac
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