Jack Kerouac Best Quotes

#1. And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they've gone to the silence, the suppers of their own mystery. - Author: Jack Kerouac

#2. Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism. - Author: Edward Abbey

#3. Around Jack (Kerouac) there circulated a palpable aura of fame and death. - Author: Gary Snyder

#4. Remember that thing Truman Capote said years ago about Jack Kerouac: "That's not writing, it's typing"? I keep thinking that what we do now, with this medium of instant delivery, isn't writing, and doesn't even qualify as typing either: it's just sending. - Author: Lynne Truss

#5. Unable to forgive his own sins, unsatisfied with just the goodness of his heart, [Kerouac] would go on poisoning his body until it rotted around him, rotted, bloated, exploded, and fell away to let the pure Jack Kerouac, the saint, escape free at last - remembered only as a ghost. - Author: Gerald Nicosia

#6. Defining moment in new telepathist's life, moment when intuitive individual learns most of society isn't telepathic, doesn't see auras,doesn't know what life on ethereal astral plane is like. - Author: Christina Westover

#7. I clearly saw the skeleton underneath
all this show of personality
what is left of a man
and all his pride but bones? - Author: Jack Kerouac

#8. Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. - Author: Jack Kerouac

#9. Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer ... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy was my friend. - Author: Hunter S. Thompson

#10. [Jack] Kerouac was writing fiction. What he did when he wrote about me ... he made me out with Russian Countesses and Swiss accounts and other things I didn't have or didn't happen and so on. - Author: William S. Burroughs

#11. A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of. - Author: Jack Kerouac

#12. I believe in order, tenderness, and piety. - Author: Jack Kerouac

#13. Even Jack Kerouac, who famously said, "First thought, best thought," benefited from editing. His earliest works are the most edited, and they're the best of his writing. - Author: K.M. Soehnlein

#14. I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys. - Author: Harvey Pekar

#15. Energy manipulation took place completely in mind,same way believing in telepathy caused telepathic abilities to grow STRONGER. - Author: Christina Westover

#16. The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything ... he is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot better than anything. So long, boys. - Author: Jack Kerouac Atop An Underwood Early Stories And Other Writings