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 art powerful
If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.
wisdom mind details
The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.
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.
wisdom mean worry
...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.
wisdom mad being-mad
There are worse things than being mad.
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.
wisdom fighting men
Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.
wisdom home tired
I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.
wisdom hands wheels
All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.
love wisdom may
Will you love me in December as you do in May?
goodbye wisdom love-is
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.
wisdom sleep thinking
They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.
wisdom dust house
Houses are full of things that gather dust
wisdom silly world
Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.