The silence was an intense roar.
JACK KEROUACThis is the story of America. Everybody’s doing what they think they’re supposed to do.
More Jack Kerouac Quotes
-
-
All I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.
JACK KEROUAC -
Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
JACK KEROUAC -
Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
JACK KEROUAC -
It’s all too much and not enough at the same time.
JACK KEROUAC -
Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.
JACK KEROUAC -
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
JACK KEROUAC -
Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
JACK KEROUAC -
I’m right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim.
JACK KEROUAC -
But, outside of being a sweet little girl, she was awfully dumb and capable of doing horrible things.
JACK KEROUAC -
There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.
JACK KEROUAC -
There’s wisdom in wine.
JACK KEROUAC -
The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
JACK KEROUAC -
I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.
JACK KEROUAC -
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
JACK KEROUAC -
My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
JACK KEROUAC