“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
Source: On the Road: the Original Scroll
Jack Kerouac: Going
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“There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.”
Jack Kerouac
book
On the Road
Source: On the Road
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll
“I'm writing this book because we're all going to die”
In the loneliness of my life, my father dead, my brother dead, my mother far away, my sister and my wife far away, nothing here but my own tragic hands that once were guarded by a world, a sweet attention, that now are left to guide and disappear their own way into the common dark of all our death, sleeping in me raw bed, alone and stupid...
Visions of Cody (1960)
Jack Kerouac
book
On the Road
Variant: I wished I was on the same bus as her. A pain stabbed my heart as it did everytime I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world of ours.
Source: On the Road
“I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”
Kerouac, as quoted by Allen Ginsberg in The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice (2006), page 250.
“Everything is going to the beat — It's the beat generation”
Desolation Angels (1965)
Context: Everything is going to the beat — It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...
girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.
Visions of Cody (1960)