Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouacwas an American novelist and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 March 1922
CityLowell, MA
CountryUnited States of America
girl sex real
Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk - real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.
catholic beatnik
I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
wisdom failure passion
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
rivers people bureaucracy
When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!
men world cry
After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.
life girl wisdom
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
life lying thinking
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
wisdom giving-up yelling
I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone's lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
wisdom leaving world
I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
stars school dark
colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization.
dream wisdom yoga
Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream
goodbye travel crazy
What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
wisdom men giving
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.
girl believe mean
It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.