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 wisdom art
So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.
life country travel
All of life is a foreign country.
talking joy soul
Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
waiting soul too-much
Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.
wisdom peace kindness
One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
life world want
I didn't know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
travel stars tired
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...
hair fancy-cars oil
Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that cramp they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume...
girl sweet dumb
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
wisdom phones people
Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
hippie yawning people
Because the only people for me are the mad ones.
wisdom silence dharma-bums
Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
good-night goodnight dream
Night is longer than day for those who dream & day is longer than night for those who make their dreams comes true.
wisdom panic want
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.