Jack Kerouac: Trending quotes (page 11)

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

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

“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…”

“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.”

“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…”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.”

“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”

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