Quotes by Jack Kerouac

About Jack Kerouac:

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet.
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I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

Jack Kerouac

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).

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because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...

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- Dobbiamo andare e non fermarci finché non siamo arrivati. - Dove andiamo? - Non lo so, ma dobbiamo andare.

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C'è sempre qualcosa di più, un po' più in là... non finisce mai.

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Nulla dietro di me, tutto avanti, è sempre così sulla strada...

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There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

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It seemed like a matter of minutes when we began rolling in the foothills before Oakland and suddenly reached a height and saw stretched out ahead of us the fabulous white city of San Francisco on her eleven mystic hills with the blue Pacific and its...

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Basta seguire la strada e prima o poi si fa il giro del mondo. Non può finire in nessun altro posto, no?

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Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears...

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Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.

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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

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Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

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All of life is a foreign country.

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Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

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If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

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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