Jack Kerouac Quotes

• The only truth is music.

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• Desolation Angels.

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• John Clellon Holmes…and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said, ‘You know, this is really a beat generation’ and he leapt up and said, ‘That’s it, that’s right!’

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• I have nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

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• It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.

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• After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.

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• Pain or love or danger makes you real again….

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• I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.

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• Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.

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• I was wrong about almost everything… and to the women: I’m sorry.

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• Be in love with your life. Every minute of it.

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• I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

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• Because in the end you won’t remember the time you spent in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.

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• Because the only people for me are the mad ones.the ones who are mad to talk, mad to live, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes,`Awww.’

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• One day i will find the right words, and they will be simple.

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• We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel and looked up at each other for the last time.

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• Don’t drink to get drunk. Drink to enjoy life.

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• Be in love with your life. Every detail of it.

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• All human beings are also dream beings dreaming ties all mankind together.

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• Live travel adventure bless & don’t be sorry.

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Jack Kerouac (39)

Birth:	12th March, 1922
Death:	21st October, 1969
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Poet

About

Jack Kerouac was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, USA. He was an American novelist and poet. He wrote several novels include: The Town and the City, On the Road, Doctor Sax, The Dharma Bums, Desolation Angels, Visions of Cody, The Sea Is My Brother, Big Sur, Vanity of Duluoz, Visions of Gerard, Maggie Cassidy, Book of Dreams, and Pic. He wrote several poems include: Mexico City Blues, Scattered Poems, Book of Haikus, Book of Sketches, and Old Angel Midnight.

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