Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouacwas an American novelist and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 March 1922
CityLowell, MA
CountryUnited States of America
cries crowd cry dark door head heaven insults life oh poverty sad send terrors worst
Oh little Cody Pomeray if there had been some way to send a cry to you even when you were too little to know what utterances and cries are for in this dark sad earth, with your terrors in a world so malign and inhospitable, and all the insults from heaven ramming down to crowd your head with anger, pain, disgrace, worst of all the crapulous poverty in and out of every splintered door of days, if someone could have said to you then, and made you perceive, "Fear life, but don't die; you're alone, everybody's alone. Oh Cody Pomeray, you can't win, you can't lose, all is ephemeral, all is hurt.
rich-or-poor stories story-of-my-life
That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.
wisdom men road-life
Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.
kind life-is
Life is life, and kind is kind
moments road-life knows
..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was
sweet causes sweet-life
And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!
thinking littles life-is
To think that so much comes to so little, to think that life is really short.
life thinking joy
With joy realize for the first time thinking just not thinking-so I don't have to think anymore.
years jail origin-of-life
I could hear Dean, blissful and blabbering and frantically rocking. Only a guy who's spent five years in jail can go to such maniacal helpless extremes; beseeching at the portals of the soft source, mad with a completely phsycial realization of the origins of life-bliss; blindly seeking to return the way he came
life giving-up yelling
I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
suitcases life-is moments
For life is holy and every moment is precious.
life stars eye
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
drinking drunk enjoy-life
Don't drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.
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?