01UndatedListen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going on, and will go on and on. This is because the world is nothing but a dream and is just thought of and the everlasting eternity pays no attention to it.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
03UndatedMy fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
04UndatedBoys 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 / quote ↗
05UndatedThe trouble with fashions is you want to fuck the women in their fashions but when the time comes they always take them off so they don't get wrinkled.Face it, the really great fucks in a man's life was when there was no time to take yr clothes off, you were too hot and she was too hot - none of yr Bohemian leisure, this was middleclass explosions against snowbanks, against walls of shithouses in attics, on sudden couches in the lobby - Talk about yr hot peace.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
06UndatedI tried to bring up boyfriends and sex. Her great dark eyes surveyed me with emptiness and a kind of chagrin that reached back generations and generations in her blood from not having done what was crying to be done--whatever it was, and everybody knows what it was.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
07UndatedHow is there laughter, how is there joy, as this world is always burning?Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
08UndatedThey put spotlights on me standing there in the road in jeans and workclothes, with the big woeful rucksack a-back, and asked:-"Where are you going?" which is precisely what they asked me a year later under Television floodlights in New York, "Where are you going?"-Just as you cant explain to the police, you cant explain to society "Looking for peace.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
09UndatedA poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any of his fellow men say. In hiseternal search for truth, thepoet is alone.He tries to be timeless in a society built on time.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
11UndatedAfter all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
12UndatedI'm back in these regions of fumbling dark uncertain creation, but it's my one and only world, and I'll do the best I can.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
13UndatedWork from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
16UndatedYet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
18UndatedNever dreaming, was I, poor Jack Duluoz, that the soul is dead. That from Heaven grace descends . . . No Doctor Pisspot Poorpail to tell me; no example inside my first and only skin. That love is the heritage, and cousin to death. That the only love can only be the first love, the only death the last, the only life within, and the only word . . . choked forever.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
19UndatedWe lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad. We made vague plans to meet in Frisco.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
20UndatedI realize all the uncountable manifestations the thinking-mind invents to place wall of horror before its pure perfect realization that there is no wall and no horror just Transcendental Empty Kissable Milk Light of Everlasting Eternity's true and perfectly empty nature.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
22UndatedOne man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
23UndatedWhat is that 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 / quote ↗
24Undatedbecause he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
