Jack Kerouac Quotes

• You can’t teach the old maestro a new tune.

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• Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

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• Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

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• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

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• Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

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• My witness is the empty sky.

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• My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

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• Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.

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• 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.

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• It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.

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• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

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• I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

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

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• Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

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• Avoid the world, it’s just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

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• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

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• All of life is a foreign country.

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• Accept loss forever.

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• A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.

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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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