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“The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.” ~ Jack Kerouac*
*”Lonesome Traveler”
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
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ~ Jack Kerouac
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
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.” ~ JackContinue reading “The Beat Generation ~ Jack Kerouac”
If You Tell A True Story, You Can’t Be Wrong. ~ Jack Kerouac
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
Jack Kerouac Quote: Life
“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” ~ Jack Kerouac
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
Life Worth Living
“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.” – Jack Kerouac
Life
All of life is a foreign country. ~Jack Kerouac
Travel Quote
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. ~Jack Kerouac
Be Kind ~Jack Kerouac Quote
Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything. ~Jack Kerouac
Mountains
The mountains are mighty patience, Buddha-man ~Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
The Right Ideas
Born: March 12, 1922 – Died: October 21, 1969
True Story
If you tell a true story, you can’t be wrong. -Jack Kerouac
The World You See….. ~ Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac On Writing
Born: March 12, 1922 – Died: October 21, 1969 AZQuotes.com
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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
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Jack Kerouac On Poetry
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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 “Short Fiction”
Jack Kerouac Musing From His Book ‘On The Road’
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Travel Quote – Jack Kerouac
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Happy Birthday Jack Kerouac
Born: March 12, 1922 in Lowell, Massachusetts
Experience – Jack Kerouac
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Poetry
Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry. Source of quote
Stars
After all, a homeless man …..
After all, a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is against him. — Jack Kerouac
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
Thinking
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
