Quote

I like it because its ugly

Jack Kerouac

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

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
Ugly
Like

More quotes by Jack Kerouac

Image
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
Jack Kerouac
Image
One night I realized that when you give people understanding and encouragement a funny little meek childish look abashes their eyes, no matter what they've been doing they weren't sure it was right - lambies all over the world.
Jack Kerouac
Image
It all ends in tears anyway.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Details are the Life of Prose.
Jack Kerouac
Image
The beauty of things must be that they end.
Jack Kerouac
Image
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
Image
But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
Jack Kerouac
Image
Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
Jack Kerouac
Image
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.
Jack Kerouac
Image
While looking for the light, you may suddenly be devoured by the darkness and find the true light
Jack Kerouac
Image
My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.
Jack Kerouac
Image
No time for poetry but exactly what is.
Jack Kerouac
Image
stick at it like a benni addict
Jack Kerouac
Image
don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.
Jack Kerouac
Image
...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
Image
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
Image
Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize 'The stars are words' and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it’s all in my mind.
Jack Kerouac
Image
Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.
Jack Kerouac
Image
To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
Jack Kerouac
Image
It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.
Jack Kerouac