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“"What are you trying to do, Kerouac?" I'd ask myself in my sleepingbag at night, "trying to deny reality with all this Buddha stuff, ya jerk?" … "Poor detailed immaculate incarnate fool, and you call yourself Self … Take off your coat and crash wits." And I realized that all this Buddhism was a STRAIN at telling the untellable emptiness yet that nothing was truer, a perfect paradox.”

Jack Kerouac

Meditation in the Woods (1958)

“The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.”

Jack Kerouac

Book of Haikus (2003)

“(...) comes under the influence of old French Fairies who accuse him of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth”

Jack Kerouac book Scattered Poems

Scattered Poems (1971)

“What are you trying to do, Kerouac? I'd ask myself in my sleepingbag at night, trying to deny reality with all this Buddha stuff, ya jerk?... Poor detailed immaculate incarnate fool, and you call yourself Self ... Take off your coat and crash wits.”

Jack Kerouac

And I realized that all this Buddhism was a STRAIN at telling the untellable emptiness yet that nothing was truer, a perfect paradox.

Meditation in the Woods (1958)

“I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"... the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this.”

Jack Kerouac

"The Origins of the Beat Generation" in Playboy (June 1959)

“Defy the law! Write the heartbroken poetry of the World!”

Jack Kerouac

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