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Jack Kerouac

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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?
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JACK KEROUAC I just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, tha...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma ...
JACK KEROUAC This market is going to fool the greatest number of people by doing what it's not supposed to do.
LARRY RICE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We don't think there is any reason to continue investigating Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania. We think they...
CHRIS RYDER I think what strikes a chord is, this is a mother. She has children and she's doing something illega...
JENJI KOHAN I enjoy this arena, ... There is nothing more empowering than knowing who you are, that you are wher...
RON ODEN He was one of the first to treat these people as serious American writers, ... Memory Babe: A Critic...
GERALD NICOSIA Hopefully this is the payoff of all the work everybodys been doing for where were taking the DC Univ...
GEOFF JOHNS I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
OLIVER NORTH Discipline is doing what you are supposed to do in the best possible manner at the time you are supp...
MIKE KRZYZEWSKI Fuck Kerouac; he would write his own story.
LINDA COLLISON My job in this, the last of the last days, is to show America her abomination. What we're supposed t...
MARGIE PHELPS Non avevo niente da offrire a nessuno tranne la mia confusione.
JACK KEROUAC Y es así como, una vez obtenida la esencia de su amor, ahora erijo grandes construcciones verbales,...
JACK KEROUAC You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT If Jack Kerouac had set out to find a real bookstore in the suburbs, he would still be on the road, ...
MICHAEL WINERIP Camminavo nella sera piena di lillà con tutti i muscoli indolenziti in mezzo alle luci della 27a St...
JACK KEROUAC Il mondo mi deve un paio di cose.
JACK KEROUAC Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy w...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON There was also evidence of misbehavior backstage, ... Stubbed-out joints, copies of Jack Kerouac, a ...
DICK CAVETT Khaki trousers soon became the province of hipsters like Jack Kerouac and Miles Davis. They were tak...
ROGER STONE Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last.
JACK KEROUAC I think a lot of people are miserable because they're not doing what they are supposed to be doing i...
KATIE LOHMANN You?re kind of like the boss on the field. You?re making sure everyone is doing what they?re suppose...
KYLE PROBST America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen befo...
JARON LANIER This is Rupp Arena. It's hard to win up here. I think they felt like they had to win. This their hom...
CHRIS LOFTON Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after...
HOWARD DEAN Whatever you are doing is what you are supposed to do. Whoever you are with is the person you are su...
LORRIN L. LEE No, they're upset they lost still. I think they're doing what they need to do to win this year.
JUNE JONES Billy Jack did an outstanding job. He did what he was supposed to do. Anything [Horatio] came up wit...
ROBERT WEBB Unable to forgive his own sins, unsatisfied with just the goodness of his heart, [Kerouac] would go ...
GERALD NICOSIA I think what the family is doing is terrible. I don't think it's their right to do these things like...
ANITA VAN Now he had answers, but they weren't doing what answers were supposed to do: they weren't making thi...
LEV GROSSMAN It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do...
CHARLES EAMES It's a waste of energy to think about what somebody else is doing and how they doing it. I'm...
DMX Pretty soon...do you realize there'll be so many additional childhoods and pasts with everybody writ...
JACK KEROUAC If we know what we're supposed to be doing, then we'll do it.
RICHARD HAWKINS I'd hope someone would do this for me. This is what we're supposed to do.
ELIZABETH MILLER I absolutely think this is what I'm supposed to be doing, ... I think being an athlete helps me to u...
BARBARA WALKER And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they...
JACK KEROUAC Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.
JACK KEROUAC He made sure everyone was doing what they were supposed to be doing, I'm going to call Junior.
JENNIFER THOMAS There is survival behavior, and doctors need to learn from patients who do not die when they are sup...
BERNIE SIEGEL Ruben was just doing what he was supposed to do. He made solid contact.
DANE MASON It doesn’t always feel right when we do what is right.
TERENCE T. GORSKI CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is suppo...
BERNIE SANDERS If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA We need to tighten up so that all stakeholders in this industry do what they are supposed to do.
DUBE TSHIDI It's not just luck. The homeowners, farmers and ranchers are doing what they're supposed to do.
CHIEF GARY OGDEN In the first half we weren't doing what we were supposed to be doing. But when we did what we were s...
CRAIG DRURY I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm s...
CALVIN JOHNSON Either they lied in their proxy if they think this is an aggressive closing date, or they're doing e...
JIM GALLAGHER [His friend, novelist Jack Kerouac, was in the audience of about 150 at the performance.] Scores of ...
JACK KEROUAC It took some time. We've shown signs of doing what were supposed to do, but we're still inexperience...
AL SORRENTINO You're not fulfilling your responsibilities. You're not doing what you're supposed to be doing in pr...
DENNIS KUCINICH What we've been on Jack about is just becoming a complete football player. I think he is beginning t...
BRET BIELEMA Courage is feeling justly afraid and yet still doing what is right.
SHANNON HALE The idea is to get kids to think about not only what they are doing in high school but what they wil...
DOUG FOX Doing what you're supposed to do is always boring. I can't imagine anything worse than being require...
SCOTT WESTERFELD This group of students is one of the fastest-growing majors in America. They come in and don't know ...
BILL MILLARD Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any mo...
OSWALD SPENGLER I think that he was pretty much doing what he was supposed to do, but he didn't make good enough pit...
DIONER NAVARRO Egypt is doing to us in the south what Syria is doing to America in Iraq.
YUVAL STEINITZ Do what you love doing.
JULIANNA MARGULIES Your heart just breaks, that's all. But you can't judge or point fingers. You just have to be lucky ...
AUDREY HEPBURN I believe they do not care what Americans think and they do not accept the legitimacy of our electio...
HOWARD DEAN Its a funny thing, I noticed that when people are joking theyre usually dead serious, and when theyr...
JIM MORRISON Sooner or later, what you do will speak
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TALIB KWELI We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER If (opponents) are taking the time to focus on us dancing and trash talking, that means they are not...
MARCUS STROUD It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They ...
ANDY WARHOL After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a littl...
DUKE ELLINGTON The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E...
DAVID BOWIE Now Leroux, what think you
Of this twist to the story?
E.A. BUCCHIANERI It's what I'm supposed to do, right? ... You hit in the middle of the lineup, you're supposed to hit...
JONNY GOMES Most of the standards being developed now have to do with interoperability. Think of the phone jack ...
FRANCES ZELAZNY Everybody's starting to figure out where they belong on the floor and what they're supposed to be do...
LEE MACIEJEWSKI America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugos...
BOBBY FISCHER Please be SILENT and LISTEN.
I am the SCHOOLMASTER
and you are in the CLASSROOM.
Just...
PSEUDONYMOUS BOSCH They are not seen as doing anything but helping out, as kids are supposed to do.
CAROL LEVINE That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can Get f...
GEORGE HARRISON Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a l...
DUKE ELLINGTON What they are doing is creating a bureaucratic superstructure. If they think this is going to be nim...
IVAN ELAND They stepped up and did what they needed to do despite being tired. This is a good win, no matter ho...
DEB HENDERSON Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, act...
KATE FORSYTH We both know... that soon everything is going to end...

...
This chat will be in the...
DEYTH BANGER I think my girls this year understand what we do and what we want to keep doing. I think they're hun...
JASON NIBLETT Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN

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JACK KEROUAC Paradise!' he screamed. 'The one and only indispensable Paradise.
JACK KEROUAC What's Your Road, Man?
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JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
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JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!.
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I sa...
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If you're not haun...
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But you'll miss all tha...
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JACK KEROUAC ...and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, ...
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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
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JACK KEROUAC Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going...
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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…
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JACK KEROUAC Houses are full of things that gather dust
JACK KEROUAC beautiful insane
in the rain
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JACK KEROUAC Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
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JACK KEROUAC Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
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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
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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.
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JACK KEROUAC It all ends in tears anyway.
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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.
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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 ...
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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.
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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 It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowl...
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