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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 3h
I like too many things and get all confused and hung–up running from one falling star to another til I drop.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 8h
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild–haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running –– that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach....
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 15h
Her unimpeachable dignity was the thing that made her poor in a wild old whorehouse.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 21h
Now she is cuddling and kissing me all over and...Cody walks right in just as we're cooing (or haved cooed again) on the bed and he yells our 'Ah just what I like to see in the morning, boys and girls!
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Late afternoon, it was I not the void that changed.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
He had no idea of the impression he was making and cared less...He was finally an Angel, as I always knew he would become; but like any Angel he still had rages and furies...
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better–and let your mind off yourself in this work.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
In the morning I woke up and turned over; a big cloud of dust rose from the mattress. I yanked at the window; it was nailed. Tim Gray was in the bed too. We coughed and sneezed. Our breakfast consisted of stale beer. Babe came back from her hotel and we got our things together to leave.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Port Allen – onde o rio é todo chuva e rosas sob uma escuridão nebulosa e insignificante, onde entramos numa estrada sinuosa sob a luminosidade amarelada da neblina, e, de repente, numa volta, vislumbramos o viscoso vulto volátil escoando suas águas sob a ponte e cruzamos outra vez a eternidade.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
My work comprises one vast book like Proust's except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a sick bed.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Soon I'll find the right words, they'll be very simple.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty–year–old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
We stopped in the unimaginable softness (293).
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
My witness is the empty sky.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
quietly filled the gas tank, saw to it the bell didn't ring, and rolled off like an Arab with a five–dollar tankful of gas
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Apparently Dean had been quiet for a few months; now the angel had arrived and he was going mad again.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
The fear of extinction is much worse that extinction (death) itself.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Now I could see Denver looming ahead of me like the Promised Land, way out there beneath the stars, across the prairie of Iowa and the plains of Nebraska, and I could see the greater vision of San Francisco beyond, like jewels in the night.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
And I go home having lost her love. And write this book.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
The vast diamond silence of the forest
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
What difference does it make after all?—anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
history becomes fiction in the…act of being written down
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men's souls to joy.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
A tremendous thing happened when Dean met Carlo Marx. Two keen minds that they are, they took to each other at the drop of a hat. Two piercing eyes glanced into two piercing eyes––the holy con–man with the shining mind, and the sorrowful poetic con–man with the dark mind that is Carlo Marx.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
He was BEAT – the root, the soul of Beatific.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I remember him standing under a streetlamp.'Just as we passed that other lamp I was going to tell you a further thing, Sal, but now I am parenthetically continuing with a new thought and by the time we reach the next I'll return to the original subject, agreed?'I certainly agreed.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
I'm my mother's son & my mother is the universe
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
...the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
I decided someday to become a Thoreau of the Mountains. To live like Jesus and Thoreau, except for women.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
There he was, my chipmunk, in the bright clear windy sunny air staring on the rock; hands clasping he sat up straight, some little oat between his paws; he nibbled, he darted away, the little nutty lord of all he surveyed.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
As I imagine God to be doing this very minute, watching his own movie, which is us.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
You'd never care to plant some roots insociety, I suppose,
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
..and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
If you drop a rose in the Hudson River at its mysterious source in the Adiron dacks, think of all the places it journeys by as it goes out to sea forever—think of that wonderful Hudson Valley.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
nothing could disturb this wise calm, this sanity of soul
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
It all ends in tears anyway.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
So I went up and there she was, the girl with the pure and innocent dear eyes that I had always searched for and for so long. We agreed to love each other madly.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'...Page 100.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
I loved the way she said 'LA'; I love the way everybody says 'LA' on the Coast; it's their one and only golden town when all is said and done.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
We got off the bus at Main Street, which was no different from where you get off a bus in Kansas City or Chicago or Boston—red brick, dirty, characters drifting by, trolleys grating in the hopeless dawn, the whorey smell of a big city.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that's practically all I ate all the way across the country, I knew it was nutritious and it was delicious, of course.
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Jack Kerouac Quotes @jackkerouacquotes.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
When it is recognized that there is nothing beyond what is seen of the mind itself, the discrimination of being and non–being ceases and, as there is thus no external world as the object of perception, nothing remains but the solitude of Reality.
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