Quotes by Jack Kerouac

About Jack Kerouac:

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet.
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So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry

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They put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful rucksack a-back, and asked:-"Where are you going?" which is precisely what they asked me a year later under Television floodlights in New York, "Where ...

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Why did God do it? or is there really a Devil who led to the Fall? Souls in Heaven said "We want to try mortal existence, O God, Lucifer said it's great!"—Bang, down we fall, to this, to concentration camps, gas ovens, barbed wire, atom bombs, tele...

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Tutte le notti continuo a chiedere al Signore, "Perché?" E ancora non ho avuto una risposta decente.

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I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining any angers or gratitudes or anything, and I say, like 'Japhy Ryder, equally empty, equally to be loved, equally a coming Buddha,' then I r...

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The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.

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Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene - colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usual...

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One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

Jack Kerouac

...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean.

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Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.

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Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma...

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Smith, you don't realize it's a privilege to practice giving presents to others.' The way he did it was charming; there was nothing glittery and Christmasy about it, but almost sad, and sometimes his gifts were old beat-up things but they had the cha...

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Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky and really meant it. "I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other." To the children and the innocent...

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Non si può vivere in questo mondo, ma non c'è nessun altro posto dove andare.

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Pain or love or danger makes you real again....

Jack Kerouac

Look at that party the other night. Everybody wanted to have a good time and tried real hard but we all woke up the next day feeling sorta sad and separate.

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The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood a...

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I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water...

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And the Hippos were boiled in their tanks!

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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.

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After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

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Author Bio

  • NameJack Kerouac
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • AliasesJean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac
  • BornMarch 13, 1922
  • DiedOctober 21, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Poet; Novelist
  • WorksOn The Road; The Dharma Bums; Big Sur