Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouacwas an American novelist and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 March 1922
CityLowell, MA
CountryUnited States of America
drinking drunk enjoy-life
Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
wisdom too-much ifs
If you own a rug you own too much.
dream night ties
The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.
wall fog blue
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 advancing wall of potato-patch fog beyond, and smoke and goldenness in the late afternoon of time.
life-and-love father hands
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?
falling-in-love too-much helping
It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
autumn falling-off leafs
Swinging on delicate hinges the autumn leaf almost off the stem.
lonely land california
Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.
winning spirit humans
It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
notebook joy secret
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
travel things-to-do
There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
wisdom blue sky
The empty blue sky of space says 'All this comes back to me, then goes again, and comes back again, then goes again, and I don't care, it still belongs to me
wake-up beat-generation
Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?
heartbreaking new-friends
We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.