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“Life is life, and kind is kind”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you”

Jack Kerouac book The Subterraneans

Source: The Subterraneans

“Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.”

Source: On the Road: the Original Scroll

“i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“Something that you feel will find its own form.”

“Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“… but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“You guys are going somewhere or just going?”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest.
If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, which are involuntary, you're not interested or even involved.”

Jack Kerouac book Book of Sketches

Source: Book of Sketches

“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Part Two, Ch. 3
On the Road (1957)

“I never saw such crazy musicians. Everybody in Frisco blew. It was the end of the continent; they didn't give a damn.”

Jack Kerouac book On the Road

Source: On the Road

“Write in recollection and amazement for yourself”

"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/kerouac-technique.html in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995) and in a letter to Don Allen (1958); published in Heaven & Other Poems (1977)

“Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

“Down in Denver, all I did was die.”

“all day long
wearing a hat
that wasn't on my head”

“Rocks are space, and space is illusion.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums