Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
JACK KEROUACGenius gives birth, talent delivers.
JACK KEROUACThe happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.
JACK KEROUACIt’s okay, girl, we’ll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We’re fallen angels who didn’t believe that nothing means nothing.
JACK KEROUACFor life is holy and every moment is precious.
JACK KEROUACWhat’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
JACK KEROUACThe only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.
JACK KEROUACI 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 KEROUACSuppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain’t this and that at all?
JACK KEROUACNo man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.
JACK KEROUACMy fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
JACK KEROUACI promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling & laughing.
JACK KEROUACI promise I shall never give up, and that I’ll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I’ll rush around this world I insist is holy and pull at everyone’s lapel and make them confess to me and to all.
JACK KEROUACYou’d be surprised how little I knew even up to yesterday
JACK KEROUACThere’s wisdom in wine.
JACK KEROUACI didn’t know what to say. I felt like crying, Goddammit everybody in the world wants an explanation for your acts and for your very being.
JACK KEROUACPractice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
JACK KEROUAC