I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk.
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JACK KEROUAC Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glor...
JACK KEROUAC Everything fell apart in me. How are things with you?
JACK KEROUAC I just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, tha...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound exte...
PAUL THEROUX Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy.
STANISLAUS I Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma...
BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty.
GREGORY I One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su...
I CHING The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema...
I CHING Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p...
I CHING Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o...
I CHING Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal de...
I CHING The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru...
I CHING Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re...
I CHING The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo...
I CHING A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then...
I CHING He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather frie...
I CHING Although I may not be a lioness, I am a lion's cub, and inherit many of his qualities; and as long a...
ELIZABETH I Fiat justitia et pereat mundus.
Let justice be done, though the world perish.
FERDINAND I Though God hath raised me high, yet this I count the glory of my crown: that I have reigned with you...
ELIZABETH I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am e...
ELIZABETH I Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
CHARLES I It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy...
BAUDOUIN I Must! Is must a word to be addressed to princes? Little man, little man! thy father, if he had been ...
ELIZABETH I Everything proceeds as if of its own accord, and this can all too easily tempt us to relax and let t...
I CHING In a few years there will be only five kings in the world -- the King of England and the four kings ...
FAROUK I Never make a defence or apology before you be accused.
CHARLES I The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow.
ELIZABETH I 'Twas God the word that spake it,
He took the bread and brake it,
And what the word did make i...
ELIZABETH I If I follow the inclination of my nature, it is this: beggar-woman and single, far rather than queen...
ELIZABETH I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty
GREGORY I The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delig...
I. KRISHNAMURTI People are not an interruption of our business. People are our business.
A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
It is hard to look up to a leader who keeps his ear to the ground.
The most wasted day of all is that in which we have not laughed.
The more intelligent a man is, the more originality he discovers in men. Ordinary people see no diff...
The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
Communication is something so simple and difficult that we can never put it in simple words.
Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads
Let love through good deeds show.
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
ELIZABETH I In everyone's heart stirs a great homesickness.
That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.
It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.
ELIZABETH I A clear and innocent conscience fears nothing.
ELIZABETH I There is one thing higher than Royalty: and that is religion, which causes us to leave the world, an...
ELIZABETH I If we still advise we shall never do.
ELIZABETH I Those who appear the most sanctified are the worst.
ELIZABETH I Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily ...
ELIZABETH I The word must is not to be used to princes.
ELIZABETH I The end crowneth the work.
ELIZABETH I A fool too late bewares when all the peril is past.
ELIZABETH I Brass shines as fair to the ignorant as gold to the goldsmiths.
ELIZABETH I One man with a head on his shoulders is worth a dozen without.
ELIZABETH I God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at lea...
ELIZABETH I God forgive you, but I never can.
ELIZABETH I I would rather go to any extreme than suffer anything that is unworthy of my reputation, or of that ...
ELIZABETH I The past cannot be cured.
ELIZABETH I The stone often recoils on the head of the thrower.
ELIZABETH I I have the heart of a man, not a woman, and I am not afraid of anything.
ELIZABETH I I do not so much rejoice that God hath made me to be a Queen, as to be a Queen over so thankful a pe...
ELIZABETH I To be a king and wear a crown is a thing more glorious to them that see it than it is pleasant to th...
ELIZABETH I I do not want a husband who honours me as a queen, if he does not love me as a woman.
ELIZABETH I I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and o...
ELIZABETH I Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested.
ELIZABETH I All my possessions for a moment of time.
ELIZABETH I You should learn how say things with your eyes that others waste time putting into words.
EYDEN I. As for my own part I care not for death, for all men are mortal; and though I be a woman yet I have ...
ELIZABETH I I would rather be a beggar and single than a queen and married.
ELIZABETH I Monarchs ought to put to death the authors and instigators of war, as their sworn enemies and as dan...
ELIZABETH I Have the courage to face a difficulty lest it kick you harder than you bargain for.
STANISLAUS I Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such s...
ELIZABETH I Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends ...
ELIZABETH I (Response to King Erik XIV of Sweden's proposal of marriage:)
"[W]hile we perceive ... th...
ELIZABETH I [F]rom my years of understanding ... I happily chose this kind of life in which I yet live [i.e., un...
ELIZABETH I [I]n the end this shall be for me sufficient, that a marble stone shall declare that a Queen, having...
ELIZABETH I To be vain of one's rank or place, is to show that one is below it.
STANISLAS I Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.
One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first ti...
To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to...
Faith is like electricity. You can't see it, but you can see the light.
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of...
Some families can trace their ancestors back three hundred years, but can't tell you where their chi...
A recent survey was said to prove that the people we Americans most admire are our politicians and d...
If a man defrauds you one time, he is a rascal; if he does it twice, you are a fool.
Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admired when it ...
Freedom also includes the right to mismanage your own affairs.
Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.
The man who has strong opinions and always says what he thinks is courageous - and friendless.
Friendship is love with understanding.
So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius
Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.
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Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay ma...
JACK KEROUAC All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. I...
JACK KEROUAC My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
JACK KEROUAC You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
JACK KEROUAC Accept loss forever.
JACK KEROUAC Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
JACK KEROUAC As you get older, you get more... genealogical.
JACK KEROUAC All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
JACK KEROUAC A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite directi...
JACK KEROUAC Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
JACK KEROUAC I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not onl...
JACK KEROUAC All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC My witness is the empty sky.
JACK KEROUAC I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
JACK KEROUAC I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
JACK KEROUAC It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose b...
JACK KEROUAC I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as p...
JACK KEROUAC And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We kee...
JACK KEROUAC It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.
JACK KEROUAC Il pouvait à peine placer un mot tellement ça l'excitait de vivre.
JACK KEROUAC Paradise!' he screamed. 'The one and only indispensable Paradise.
JACK KEROUAC What's Your Road, Man?
JACK KEROUAC The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
JACK KEROUAC I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til...
JACK KEROUAC The only truth is music.
JACK KEROUAC If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
JACK KEROUAC One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
JACK KEROUAC What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see ...
JACK KEROUAC Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to ...
JACK KEROUAC [...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be s...
JACK KEROUAC My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
JACK KEROUAC All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
JACK KEROUAC No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderne...
JACK KEROUAC But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and shambled after as I've been doing all my...
JACK KEROUAC Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.
KEROUAC JACK After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just...
JACK KEROUAC This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
JACK KEROUAC Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
JACK KEROUAC Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
JACK KEROUAC Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened t...
JACK KEROUAC Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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 Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
JACK KEROUAC I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversati...
JACK KEROUAC The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries ...
JACK KEROUAC I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
JACK KEROUAC because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere t...
JACK KEROUAC One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
JACK KEROUAC Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th...
JACK KEROUAC I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
JACK KEROUAC It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to h...
JACK KEROUAC So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry
JACK KEROUAC Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun t...
JACK KEROUAC I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll ru...
JACK KEROUAC Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!.
JACK KEROUAC I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transm...
JACK KEROUAC I was just looking at the jukebox. Just playing records. She said, You want to play with me?
I sa...
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 There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?
JACK KEROUAC If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by sca...
JACK KEROUAC You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
JACK KEROUAC Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of interest in sub...
JACK KEROUAC Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and loo...
JACK KEROUAC I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was ...
JACK KEROUAC Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream
JACK KEROUAC The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view
JACK KEROUAC A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest.
If you're not haun...
JACK KEROUAC I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest mom...
JACK KEROUAC And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane peopl...
JACK KEROUAC What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anyw...
JACK KEROUAC My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in ne...
JACK KEROUAC Besides which, she would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and...
JACK KEROUAC Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
JACK KEROUAC we pass the fields of Perry and Madrone and where they make wine, and it's all there, all sweet the ...
JACK KEROUAC There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.
JACK KEROUAC Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away...
JACK KEROUAC What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see ...
JACK KEROUAC Everything is all right forever and forever and forever.
JACK KEROUAC Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you ...
JACK KEROUAC ...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds ...
JACK KEROUAC Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
JACK KEROUAC Everybody was yelling 'Go! Go! Go!' (like a jam session),
JACK KEROUAC Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea," said Japhy. "Remember that book I told you about t...
JACK KEROUAC Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to ...
JACK KEROUAC Will you love me in December as you do in May?
JACK KEROUAC When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw ...
JACK KEROUAC Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...
But you'll miss all tha...
JACK KEROUAC A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direct...
JACK KEROUAC It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.
JACK KEROUAC Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
JACK KEROUAC the road is life
JACK KEROUAC [His friend, novelist Jack Kerouac, was in the audience of about 150 at the performance.] Scores of ...
JACK KEROUAC Oh little Cody Pomeray if there had been some way to send a cry to you even when you were too little...
JACK KEROUAC Mainly I've been back to my books and writings and being nice and quiet and lazy. As I'm writing thi...
JACK KEROUAC Dean took out other pictures. I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look ...
JACK KEROUAC Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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 We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing ...
JACK KEROUAC What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see ...
JACK KEROUAC Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces,...
JACK KEROUAC I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion
JACK KEROUAC I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til...
JACK KEROUAC Maybe that's what life is...a wink of the eye and winking stars.
JACK KEROUAC The beat generation
JACK KEROUAC “…-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul sho...
JACK KEROUAC Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and yo...
JACK KEROUAC A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite directi...
JACK KEROUAC The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great that I thought I wa...
JACK KEROUAC Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or ra...
JACK KEROUAC What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
JACK KEROUAC I was going to be left alone on my butt at the other end of the continent. But why think about that ...
JACK KEROUAC ...and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, ...
JACK KEROUAC Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine...
JACK KEROUAC Buds in the snow
—the deadly fight
between two birds
JACK KEROUAC The other man, just as
lonesome as I am
In this empty universe
JACK KEROUAC Hitch hiked a thousand
miles and brought
You wine
JACK KEROUAC November the seventh
The last
Faint cricket
JACK KEROUAC They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past...
JACK KEROUAC Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going...
JACK KEROUAC Because he was always tremendously generated towards complete relationship with his women to the poi...
JACK KEROUAC ...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in...
JACK KEROUAC Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.
JACK KEROUAC I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.
JACK KEROUAC What is the universe
but a lot of waves
And a craving desire
is a wave…
JACK KEROUAC Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.
JACK KEROUAC And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they...
JACK KEROUAC ...the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fi...
JACK KEROUAC Overpowered by the sadness of not knowing what there is in the world, and what I'm doing. Fee...
JACK KEROUAC LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but the...
JACK KEROUAC I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinki...
JACK KEROUAC I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.
JACK KEROUAC As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
JACK KEROUAC Houses are full of things that gather dust
JACK KEROUAC beautiful insane
in the rain
JACK KEROUAC My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to...
JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.
JACK KEROUAC I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversati...
JACK KEROUAC My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
JACK KEROUAC I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ...
JACK KEROUAC Get married and have halfbreed babies, manuscripts, home¬spun blankets and mother’s milk on your ...
JACK KEROUAC Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
JACK KEROUAC I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all
JACK KEROUAC The first sip [of tea] is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness,...
JACK KEROUAC The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and ...
JACK KEROUAC Rocks are space, and space is illusion.
JACK KEROUAC Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at...
JACK KEROUAC Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
JACK KEROUAC It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.
JACK KEROUAC i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosi...
JACK KEROUAC I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.
JACK KEROUAC Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?
JACK KEROUAC I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wan...
JACK KEROUAC The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.
JACK KEROUAC my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially free...
JACK KEROUAC I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wanderin...
JACK KEROUAC The silence was an intense roar.
JACK KEROUAC Pretty girls make graves
JACK KEROUAC Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glor...
JACK KEROUAC colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds it...
JACK KEROUAC The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
JACK KEROUAC Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our...
JACK KEROUAC Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
JACK KEROUAC Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
JACK KEROUAC I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, th...
JACK KEROUAC It all ends in tears anyway.
JACK KEROUAC At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver...
JACK KEROUAC At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
JACK KEROUAC Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the Spirit of the Mountain was thinking, and loo...
JACK KEROUAC It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
JACK KEROUAC As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clou...
JACK KEROUAC I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til...
JACK KEROUAC ...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact ...
JACK KEROUAC Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your...
JACK KEROUAC For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze...
JACK KEROUAC Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana ...
JACK KEROUAC His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because...
JACK KEROUAC Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
JACK KEROUAC And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was th...
JACK KEROUAC I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
JACK KEROUAC I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my f...
JACK KEROUAC What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
I don't k...
JACK KEROUAC We agreed to love each other madly.
JACK KEROUAC My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and ask...
JACK KEROUAC So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, ...
JACK KEROUAC But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wa...
JACK KEROUAC Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't...
JACK KEROUAC Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th...
JACK KEROUAC And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles fol...
JACK KEROUAC The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w...
JACK KEROUAC ...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it w...
JACK KEROUAC ...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ...
JACK KEROUAC ...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I ...
JACK KEROUAC I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’...
JACK KEROUAC The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is ...
JACK KEROUAC I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA ...
JACK KEROUAC He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows st...
JACK KEROUAC And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show...
JACK KEROUAC Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by ...
JACK KEROUAC