Jack Kerouac: Trending quotes (page 8)

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“You guys are going somewhere or just going?”

“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.”

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

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

“Write in recollection and amazement for yourself”

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

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

“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.”