Jack Kerouac: Trending quotes
Jack Kerouac trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collectionLetter 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
“I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
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.”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
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.”
Jack Kerouac book Lonesome Traveler
Source: Lonesome Traveler
“I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion”
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
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?”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll
“cliches are truisms and all truisms are true”
Jack Kerouac book Big Sur
Variant: Clichés are truisms and all truisms are true
Source: Big Sur