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“LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“My eyes were glued on life
and they were full of tears.”

Jack Kerouac book Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

Source: Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings

“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her.”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Source: Big Sur

“Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“There are worse things than being mad.”

Jack Kerouac

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“The beauty of things must be that they end.”

Jack Kerouac book Tristessa

Source: Tristessa

“Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.”

Jack Kerouac

Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

“And when the fog's over and the stars and the moon come out at night it'll be a beautiful sight.”

Jack Kerouac book Big Sur

Source: Big Sur

“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.”

Jack Kerouac

Satori in Paris (1966)
Source: Satori in Paris & Pic

“The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.”

Jack Kerouac book The Subterraneans

Source: The Subterraneans

“All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.”

Jack Kerouac

Source: On the Road: the Original Scroll

“… we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.”

Jack Kerouac book The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

Source: The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

“When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw it away. I insist on your freedom.”

Jack Kerouac book The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

Source: The Scripture of the Golden Eternity

“Pretty girls make graves.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums (1958)