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1. "You're a Genius all the time" ~ Jack Kerouac
2. "Then he told me how Dean had met Camille. Roy Johnson, the poolhall boy, had found her in a bar and took her to a hotel; pride taking over his sense, he invited the whole gang to come up and see her. Everybody sat around talking with Camille. Dean did nothing but look out a window. Then when everybody left, Dean merely looked at Camille, pointed at his wrist, made the sign 'four' (meaning he'd be back at four), and went on. At three the door was locked to Roy Johnson. At four it was open to Dean. I wanted to go right out and see the madman." ~ Jack Kerouac
3. "Finding Nirvana is like locating silence." ~ Jack Kerouac
4. "They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see." ~ Jack Kerouac
5. "At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave." ~ Jack Kerouac
6. "Sembra che io abbia una costituzione che non regge l'alcol e ancor di meno l'idiozia e l'incoerenza." ~ Jack Kerouac
7. "And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. 200)" ~ Jack Kerouac
8. "the road is life" ~ Jack Kerouac
9. "All life is but a skull-bone andA rack of ribs through whichwe keep passing food & fuel-just so's we can burn sofurious beautiful." ~ Jack Kerouac
10. "I see the whole thing popping and parenthesizing in every direction, the story of that house and that kitchen." ~ Jack Kerouac
11. "…the loneliness…the "inexpressibly delicious" sensation of this memory - for as memories are older they're like wine rarer, till if you find a real old memory, one of infancy, not an established often tasted one but a brand new one, it would taste better than the Napoleon brandy Stendhal himself must have stared at…" ~ Jack Kerouac
12. "NatureJust because you shit fruitDon't think you're the Kingpin of the World" ~ Jack Kerouac
13. "If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime." ~ Jack Kerouac
14. "Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life." ~ Jack Kerouac
15. "So you're leaving, Yo." We called each other Yo." ~ Jack Kerouac
16. "To this boy of New England the May morning was like faint music in the woods again, some unspeakably exciting foregathering of events far in the deep shade of morning pines, all of it stirring there. He could hear it all faintly in the woods from far away, from across the fields and pastures, in the cool misty morning air, and he wanted to go there too." ~ Jack Kerouac
17. "The cowboy music twanged in the roadhouse and carried across the fields, all sadness. It was all right with me. I kissed my baby and we put out the lights." ~ Jack Kerouac
18. "Something that you feel will find its own form." ~ Jack Kerouac
19. "And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time." ~ Jack Kerouac
20. "O hell, I'm sick of life - If I had any guts I'd drown myself in that tiresome water but that wouldn't be getting it over at all, I can just see the big transformations and plans jellying down there to curse us up in some other wretched suffering form eternities of it - I guess that's what the kid feels - She looks so sad down there wandering Ophelialike in bare feet among thunders." ~ Jack Kerouac
21. "And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, wiht a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. - Sal Paradise" ~ Jack Kerouac
22. "In the hall itself the din of the music - for this is the real way to play a jukebox and what it was originally for - was so tremendous that it shattered Dean and Stan and me for a moment in the realization that we had never dared to play music as we wanted, and this was how loud we wanted." ~ Jack Kerouac
23. "Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live." ~ Jack Kerouac
24. "We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we enter it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period. (pg. 65)" ~ Jack Kerouac
25. "She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too much to bear sometimes like some fantastic futuristic Jerry Southern singer in a nightclub who steps up to the mike in the spotlight in Las Vegas but doesn't even have to sing, just talk, to make men sigh and women wonder I guess..." ~ Jack Kerouac
26. "The 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
27. "Basta seguire la strada e prima o poi si fa il giro del mondo. Non può finire in nessun altro posto, no?" ~ Jack Kerouac
28. "It starts raining harder, I've got a long way to go walking and pushing that sore leg right along in the gathering rain, no chance no intention whatever of hailing a cab, the whiskey and the Morphine have made me unruffled by the sickness of the poison in my heart." ~ Jack Kerouac
29. "That Rollo Greb is the greatest, most wonderful of all. That's what I was trying to tell you - that's what I want to be. I want to be like him. He's never hung-up, he goes every direction, he lets it all out, he knows time, he has nothing to do but rock back and forth. Man, he's the end! You see, if you go like him all the time you'll finally get it." ~ Jack Kerouac
30. "So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being." ~ Jack Kerouac
31. "Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world." ~ Jack Kerouac
32. "I looked. George Shearing. And as always he leaned his blind head on his pale hand, all ears opened like the ears of an elephant, listening to the American sounds and mastering them for his own English summer's-night use. Then they urged him to get up and play. He did. He played innumerable choruses with amazing chords that mounted higher and higher till the sweat splashed all over the piano and everybody listened in awe and fright. They led him off the stand after an hour. He went back to his dark corner, old God Shearing, and the boys said, 'There ain't nothin left after that." ~ Jack Kerouac
33. "Every night I still ask the Lord, "Why?" and havent heard a decent answer yet" ~ Jack Kerouac
34. "My eyes were glued on lifeand they were full of tears." ~ Jack Kerouac
35. "i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway." ~ Jack Kerouac
36. "I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?" ~ Jack Kerouac
37. "In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach." ~ Jack Kerouac
38. "I couldn't meet a girl without saying to myself, What kind of wife would she make?" ~ Jack Kerouac
39. "They were like the man with the dungeon stone and the gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America a new beat generation that I was slowly joining." ~ Jack Kerouac
40. "Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene - 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 in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstasy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization." ~ Jack Kerouac
41. "At night in this part of the West the stars, as I had seen them in Wyoming, were as big as Roman Candles and as lonely as the Prince who's lost his ancestral home and journeys across the spaces trying to find it again, and knows he never will." ~ Jack Kerouac
42. "God was gone; it was the silence of his departure. It was a rainy night. It was the myth of the rainy night. Dean was popeyed with awe. This madness would lead nowhere. I didn't know what was happening to me, and I suddenly realized it was only the tea that we were smoking; Dean had bought some in New York. It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever." ~ Jack Kerouac
43. "and the stars were icicles of mockery" ~ Jack Kerouac
44. "I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children." ~ Jack Kerouac
45. "Se non scrivo quello che vedo effettivamente accadere su questo globo infelice racchiuso nei contorni del mio teschio penserò che il povero Dio mi abbia mandato sulla terra per niente." ~ Jack Kerouac
46. "Pero entonces bailaban por las calles como peonzas enloquecidas, y yo vacilaba tras ellos como he estado haciendo toda mi vida mientras sigo a la gente que me interesa, porque la única gente que me interesa está loca, la gente que está loca por vivir, loca por hablar, loca por salvarse, con ganas de todo al mismo tiempo, la gente que nunca bosteza ni habla de lugares comunes, sino que arde, arde como fabulosos cohetes amarillos explotando igual que arañas entre las estrellas y entonces se ve estallar una luz azul y todo el mundo suelta un <>. [pp. 16]" ~ Jack Kerouac
47. "And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach and which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, with a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the Angels dove off and flew into infinity." ~ Jack Kerouac
48. "I have all the time in the world from life to life to do what is to do, to do what is done, to do the timeless doing." ~ Jack Kerouac
49. "When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!" ~ Jack Kerouac
50. "Then I suddenly had the most tremendous feeling of the pitifulness of human beings, whatever they were, their faces, pained mouths, personalities, attempts to be gay, little petulances, feelings of loss, their dull and empty witticisms so soon forgotten: Ah, for what? I knew that the sound of silence was everywhere and therefore everything everywhere was silence. Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all? I staggered up the hill, greeted by birds, and looked at all the huddled sleeping figures on the floor. Who were all these strange ghosts rooted to the silly little adventure of earth with me? And who was I?" ~ Jack Kerouac
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