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 read his books, I feel like I am sitting across the table from him, and having a mind bending conversation.
He was a great writer, who passed away at what I would call a young age (47 y/o).
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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 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
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.
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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, they will go their
separate ways, only to meet up again,
soon.
Jack Kerouac Musing From His Book ‘On The Road’
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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Wednesday Quote
Poetry
Jack Kerouac
March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969
Novelist, Painter, Poet
Don’t use the phone.
People are never ready
to answer it. Use poetry.
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
Jack Kerouac
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