Jack Kerouac

The Beat Generation

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

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 …

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Thinking of the stars

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 …

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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

Feelings

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 …

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“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.” ~ Jack Kerouac

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

Details are the Life of Prose. ~Jack Kerouac

Beautiful insane in the rain. ~Jack Kerouac

Dream Beings

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. ~Jack Kerouac

Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream. ~Jack Kerouac

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ~Jack Kerouac

Rest and be kind, you don’t have to prove anything. ~Jack Kerouac

Six Words

where have you gone Jack Kerouac?

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” ~ Jack Kerouac*

*Born: March 12, 1922 – Died: October 21, 1969

“I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.” ~ Jack Kerouac

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

“Maybe that’s what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.” ~Jack Kerouac

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

“February dawn — frost on the path Where I paced all winter.” ~ Jack Kerouac

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

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.” ~ Jack …

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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

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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

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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, …

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