Jack Kerouac
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“What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I’m a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I’m empty and awake, that I know I’m empty and awake, and that there’s Continue reading
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“I don’t know, I don’t care, and it doesn’t make any difference.” ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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“Leave me alone at night with my books. Don’t complicate the world for me. I want it uncomplicated. And above all, leave me alone with my books at night.” – Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream.” – Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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“The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now. That’s the story. That’s the message. Nobody understands it, nobody listens, they’re all running around like chickens with Continue reading
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“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.” ~ Jack Continue reading
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“Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize your already in heaven now.” -Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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California October Nights
“The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world.” ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Documents Of The Mist
“Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now so vast we can’t communicate them anymore and if we tried it would take a million years and a billion books – Too late, too late, the history of everything Continue reading
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Practice Kindness
“The world you see is just a movie in your mind. Rocks dont see it. Bless and sit down. Forgive and forget. Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now. That’s the story. That’s the message. Nobody understands it, nobody listens, they’re all running around like chickens with Continue reading
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This And That
Suppose we wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all? -Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Jack Kerouac
Finishing up Jack Kerouac’s novel: The Town and The City. Its the second time I have read it, and its an interesting read. The beginning of the book, he mentions the city I was born and raised in, the city I reside in now, and the river which is only two blocks away. When I Continue reading
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Direction
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going in the opposite direction in this too-big world. ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Dream Beings
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. ~Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Six Words
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“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” ~ Jack Kerouac*
*Born: March 12, 1922 – Died: October 21, 1969 Continue reading
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Suddenly Wake Up
“Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?” ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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The Mad Ones
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.” ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Just Thinking
If Jack Kerouac were alive what would be his thoughts of the state of affairs this country It would surely be an interesting read Continue reading
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Writing Slowly With Revisions ~ Jack Kerouac
“I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.” ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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The Beat Generation ~ Jack Kerouac
“The Beat Generation, that was a vision that we had, John Clellon Holmes and I, and Allen Ginsberg in an even wilder way, in the late forties, of a generation of crazy, illuminated hipsters suddenly rising and roaming America, serious, bumming and hitchhiking everywhere, ragged, beatific, beautiful in an ugly graceful new way.” ~ Jack Continue reading
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Mad Ones ~ Jack Kerouac
“The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.” ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Jack Kerouac Quote: Life
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” ~ Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Bored Solitude ~ Jack Kerouac
“No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength” – Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Life Worth Living
“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.” – Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Life
All of life is a foreign country. ~Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Travel Quote
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. ~Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Be Kind ~Jack Kerouac Quote
Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything. ~Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Mountains
The mountains are mighty patience, Buddha-man ~Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums Continue reading
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The Right Ideas
Born: March 12, 1922 – Died: October 21, 1969 Continue reading
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Jack Kerouac On Writing
Born: March 12, 1922 – Died: October 21, 1969 AZQuotes.com Continue reading
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Jack Kerouac
I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of thinking and enjoying what they call living, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds. Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Jack Kerouac Quote
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Jack Kerouac Quote
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Short Fiction
Spotted Jack Kerouac and a few of his beat friends, discussing how life could be beautiful. Thought I would and give a listen to their back and forth ideas, and believe me, it was all good. It seems the flow of their words was all encompassing, never shouting, smiles all around. When they are done, Continue reading
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Travel Quote – Jack Kerouac
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Happy Birthday Jack Kerouac
Born: March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts Continue reading
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Jack Kerouac
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Jack Kerouac
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Wednesday Quote
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Poetry
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. Source of quote Continue reading
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After all, a homeless man …..
After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is against him. — Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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Aw I don’t wanta go ….
Aw I don’t wanta go to no such thing. I just wanta to drink in alleys.’…But you’ll miss all that, just for some old wine.’ There’s wisdom in wine, goddam it’ I yelled. ‘Have a shot! — Jack Kerouac Continue reading
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