Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouacwas an American novelist and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 March 1922
CityLowell, MA
CountryUnited States of America
dream frenzy
We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).
dark sky people
I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.
cities los-angeles brutal
LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities.
being-alone men boredom
No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength
lying matter harvard
The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.
wisdom sleep interesting
I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
karma fun believe
my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.
moving confusion leaving
We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.
writing mind want
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind,
travel world whole-world
The road must eventually lead to the whole world.
crazy mind being-crazy
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.
dream memories mind
A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.
wisdom ends
The beauty of things must be that they end.
girl forever vision
It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.