Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouacwas an American novelist and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 March 1922
CityLowell, MA
CountryUnited States of America
wisdom mad being-mad
There are worse things than being mad.
girl feels studious
Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?
lonely wine sleep
In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood
vision individual unspeakable
The unspeakable visions of the individual.
beautiful girl school
I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
ceilings wonder made
We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.
sadness laughing rolling
Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been.
thinking sneak-in world
and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did.
wisdom weather firsts
For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.
children vapor innocent
To the children and the innocent it's all the same.
lonely men facts
I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.
pride soul body
I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?
things-to-do best-things hard
It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.
pride men skeletons
I clearly saw the skeleton underneath all this show of personality what is left of a man and all his pride but bones?