Quotes about Kerouac

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It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flau — Jack Kerouac
Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, Kerouac — Frank O'Hara
If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read — Sarah Vowell, Take the Cannoli
A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a — Jack Kerouac, Book of Sketches
Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last. — Jack Kerouac, Book of Sketches
The trouble with fashions is you want to fuck the women in their fashions but when the time comes they always take them — Jack Kerouac, Book of Sketches
Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species o — Christina Westover, The Man Who Followed Jack Kerouac
..home INSIDE is home shining brightly above all homes in physical world. — Christina Westover, The Man Who Followed Jack Kerouac
Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow ST — Christina Westover, The Man Who Followed Jack Kerouac
Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doe — Christina Westover, The Man Who Followed Jack Kerouac
A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the — Jack Kerouac
I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon — Aberjhani, Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black
Tis true what Hemingway says--if we're lucky enough to live our dreams in youth, as Ernest Hemingway did in 1920's Paris — Alison Winfield Burns, Ivy League Bohemians (A Girl Among Boys): Bliss Book of Columbia University's Pariah Artists
I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, — Jack Kerouac
I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into being as they inte — Joyce Johnson, Door Wide Open: A Beat Love Affair in Letters, 1957-1958
I was impressed with Jack [Kerouac]’s commitment to serious writing at the expense of everything else in his life. At a — Sterling Lord, Lord of Publishing: A Memoir
writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscover ways to live in A — Elizabeth Gilbert, The Last American Man
A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of. — Jack Kerouac
I clearly saw the skeleton underneathall this show of personalitywhat is left of a manand all his pride but bones? — Jack Kerouac, Scattered Poems
Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning? — I did.