01c. 1945 AD...the/ supreme end-result of/ early Gothic phallic forms/ is the skyscraper & the/ oil drill & powered/ compressor & pistons of/ great engines...Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
02c. 1945 ADThe earth will always be the same - only cities and history will change, even nations will change, governments and governors will go, the things made by men's hands will go, buildings will always crumble - only the earth will remain the same, there will always be men on the earth in the morning, there will always be the things made by God's hands - and all this history of cities and congress now will go, all modern history is only a littering Babylon smoking under the sun, delaying the day when men again will have to return to earth, to the earth of life and God -Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
04c. 1945 ADIn winter night Massachusetts Street is dismal, the ground's frozen cold, the ruts and pock holes have ice, thin snow slides over the jagged black cracks. The river is frozen to stolidity, waits; hung on a shore with remnant show-off boughs of June-- Ice skaters, Swedes, Irish girls, yellers and singers--they throng on the white ice beneath the crinkly stars that have no altar moon, no voice, but down heavy tragic space make halyards of Heaven on in deep, to where the figures fantastic amassed by scientists cream in a cold mass; the veil of Heaven on tiaras and diadems of a great Eternity Brunette called night.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
05c. 1945 ADHe lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows staring on seas of rooftops and the glitter of winter nights when home lights brownly wave beneath the heater whiter blaze of stars--those stars that in the North, in the clear nights, all hang frozen tears by the billions, with January Milky Ways like silver taffy, veils of frost in the stillness, huge blinked, throbbing to the slow beat of time and universal blood.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
06c. 1945 ADI suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
08c. 1945 ADAt least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
10c. 1945 ADIn seeking to severely penalize criminals society by putting the criminals away behind safe walls actually provide them with the means of greater strength for future atrocities glorious and otherwise.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
11c. 1945 ADThe only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing but burn burn burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
12c. 1945 ADParis is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
13c. 1945 ADI hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
14c. 1945 ADMankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
15c. 1945 ADI made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
16c. 1945 ADThe 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... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
18c. 1945 ADGreat things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.Jack Kerouac / quote ↗
