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“When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“To the children and the innocent it's all the same.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.”

Jack Kerouac

“After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to 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 book Lonesome Traveler

Variant: 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.
Source: Lonesome Traveler

“She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.”

Jack Kerouac book Maggie Cassidy

Source: Maggie Cassidy

“An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else…”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Source: Big Sur

“don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.”

Jack Kerouac

Source: Dr Sax

“February dawn -- frost
on the path
Where I paced all winter.”

Jack Kerouac Book of Haikus

Source: Book of Haikus

“Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“Some's bastards, some's ain't.
That's the score.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Accept loss forever”

Jack Kerouac

"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995) and in a letter to Don Allen (1958); published in Heaven & Other Poems (1977)
Variant: Accept loss forever

“The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is L. A.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.”

Jack Kerouac book Book of Sketches

Source: Book of Sketches

“They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“fear life but don't die, your alone, everybody's alone, oh Cody Pomeray you can't win you can't lose all is ephemeral all is hurt”

Jack Kerouac

“It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road