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Jack Kerouac
Age: 47 †
Born: 1922
Born: March 13
Died: 1969
Died: October 21
Novelist
Poet
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East Chelmsford
Massachusetts
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More quotes by Jack Kerouac
I was a man of the earth, precisely as I had dreamed I would be.
Jack Kerouac
And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.
Jack Kerouac
My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears.
Jack Kerouac
i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.
Jack Kerouac
Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.
Jack Kerouac
February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.
Jack Kerouac
I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours
Jack Kerouac
You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER
Jack Kerouac
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.
Jack Kerouac
I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
Jack Kerouac
I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
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
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.
Jack Kerouac
And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are happy, O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of happy nuts. (p. 200)
Jack Kerouac
equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha
Jack Kerouac
In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach.
Jack Kerouac
I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
Jack Kerouac
Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom?
Jack Kerouac
The only alternative to sleeping out, hopping freights, and doing what I wanted, I saw in a vision would be to just sit with a hundred other patients in front of a nice television set in a madhouse, where we could be supervised.
Jack Kerouac
Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.
Jack Kerouac