Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouacwas an American novelist and poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth12 March 1922
CityLowell, MA
CountryUnited States of America
life giving-up yelling
I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling & laughing.
poet lays
I'd better be a poet Or lay down dead.
writing dark simple
I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
madhouses
Between incomprehensible and incoherent sits the madhouse. I am not in the madhouse.
dream world wonderful
I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.
thinking vision facts
The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.
hangover heart sleep
All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up and sleep the ecstatic sleep that Burroughs was experiencing with a good big mainline shot of M. and advertising executives in NY were experiencing with twelve Scotch & Sodas in Stouffers before they made the drunkard's train to Westchester---but without hangovers.
believe flower world
Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.
real world would-be
What a horror it would have been if the world was real, because if the world was real, it would be immortal.
thinking forever moments
It made me think that everything was about to arrive - the moment when you know all and everything is decided forever.
gratitude honesty believe
Yeah," I said, "but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat?
childhood would-be columbus
I felt the sensation of each of the directions I mentally and emotionally turned into amazed at all the possible directions you can take with different motives that come in like it can make you a different person — I’ve often thought of this since childhood of suppose instead of going up Columbus as I usually did I’d turn into Filbert would something happen that at the time is insignificant enough but would be like enough to influence my whole life in the end? — What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
suitcases life-is moments
For life is holy and every moment is precious.
daughter nice home
And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.