Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

"Be in love with your life. Every minute of it."
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"Be in love with your life. Every minute of it."
Jack Kerouac
"A poet is a blind optimist. The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for truth, thepoet is alone. He tries to be timeless in a society built on time."
Jack Kerouac
"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."
Jack Kerouac
"Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it."
Jack Kerouac
"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."
Jack Kerouac
"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."
Jack Kerouac
"Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy"
Jack Kerouac
"Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it."
Jack Kerouac
"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop."
Jack Kerouac
"Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry."
Jack Kerouac
"Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don't know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone"
Jack Kerouac
"It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation."
Jack Kerouac
"The only truth is music."
Jack Kerouac
"It is possible for the human spirit to win after all."
Jack Kerouac
"Be in love with your life, every detail of it."
Jack Kerouac
"And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves."
Jack Kerouac
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