Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouacwas an American novelist and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 March 1922
CityLowell, MA
CountryUnited States of America
reading landscape bumps
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
america thieves realizing
I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.
girl past world
So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
morning stupid hate
I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I hate myself, bitterly it's too late yet while I feel better I still feel ephemeral and unreal and unable to straighten my thoughts or even really grieve, in fact I feel too stupid to be really bitter, in short I don't know what I'm doing and I'm being told what to do...
swimming rivers hardship
I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim...
fall mountain taught
Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.
writing want what-you-want
If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?
america land nowhere-to-go
Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back
trying fathom virgins
Is Virgin you trying to fathom me
scared ghost stranger
I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.
america roof
We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell
ugly
I like it because its ugly
cat moon purring
Holding up my purring cat to the moon. I sighed.
dog humility mad
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.