Letter to Ed White (5 July 1950) as published in The Missouri Review, Vol. XVII, No. 3, 1994, page 137, and also quoted in Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster (1996) by Steve Turner, p. 117
Jack Kerouac: Trending quotes (page 7)
Jack Kerouac trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”
Source: On the Road
“If you own a rug you own too much.”
This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
Misattributed
“The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.”
Source: The Dharma Bums
Source: On the Road: the Original Scroll
“Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.”
Source: Lonesome Traveler
“I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion”
Variant: I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.
Source: On the Road
“Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.”
Source: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
“Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?”
Source: The Dharma Bums
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll
“cliches are truisms and all truisms are true”
Variant: Clichés are truisms and all truisms are true
Source: Big Sur