More - Jack Kerouac Quotes

What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -it's the too huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”

Jack Kerouac

 

Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk- real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.

Jack Kerouac

 America

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Jack Kerouac

 American Novelist Control

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself

Jack Kerouac

 

Everybody was yelling 'Go! Go! Go!' (like a jam session),

Jack Kerouac

 

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Jack Kerouac

 American Novelist

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 and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!

Jack Kerouac

 

...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets is each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness...

Jack Kerouac

 Expression

I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Jack Kerouac

 

Maybe that's what life is...a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Jack Kerouac