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I was just looking at the jukebox. Just playing records. She said, You want to play with me?
I said, Sure. How much?
She says, Five bucks, two dollars for the room.
Was it nice, Jack?
All women are nice.


Jack Kerouac

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JACK KEROUAC Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?
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JACK KEROUAC We agreed to love each other madly.
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JACK KEROUAC I forgave everybody, I gave up, I got drunk.
JACK KEROUAC O how wonderful life is, how miraculous, God made this and God made that", "how do you know he doesn...
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JACK KEROUAC Pretty soon...do you realize there'll be so many additional childhoods and pasts with everybody writ...
JACK KEROUAC Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.
JACK KEROUAC Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last.
JACK KEROUAC They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
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JACK KEROUAC One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
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JACK KEROUAC It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to h...
JACK KEROUAC Il pouvait à peine placer un mot tellement ça l'excitait de vivre.
JACK KEROUAC If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
JACK KEROUAC One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
JACK KEROUAC There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?
JACK KEROUAC You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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JACK KEROUAC My witness is the empty sky.
JACK KEROUAC I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
JACK KEROUAC One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
JACK KEROUAC Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
JACK KEROUAC You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
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JACK KEROUAC Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
JACK KEROUAC The silence was an intense roar.
JACK KEROUAC Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glor...
JACK KEROUAC colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds it...
JACK KEROUAC Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
JACK KEROUAC It all ends in tears anyway.
JACK KEROUAC My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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JACK KEROUAC Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy

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JACK KEROUAC I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without e...
JACK KEROUAC Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me.
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JACK KEROUAC I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
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JACK KEROUAC My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
JACK KEROUAC Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
JACK KEROUAC All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
JACK KEROUAC Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you ...
JACK KEROUAC What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see ...
JACK KEROUAC I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was ...
JACK KEROUAC The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view
JACK KEROUAC the road is life
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JACK KEROUAC When you've understood this scripture, throw it away. If you can't understand this scripture, throw ...
JACK KEROUAC Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...
But you'll miss all tha...
JACK KEROUAC we pass the fields of Perry and Madrone and where they make wine, and it's all there, all sweet the ...
JACK KEROUAC Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine...
JACK KEROUAC The other man, just as
lonesome as I am
In this empty universe
JACK KEROUAC Hitch hiked a thousand
miles and brought
You wine
JACK KEROUAC Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.
JACK KEROUAC And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they...
JACK KEROUAC Because he was always tremendously generated towards complete relationship with his women to the poi...
JACK KEROUAC Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.
JACK KEROUAC Get married and have halfbreed babies, manuscripts, home¬spun blankets and mother’s milk on your ...
JACK KEROUAC I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinki...
JACK KEROUAC Rocks are space, and space is illusion.
JACK KEROUAC I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.
JACK KEROUAC The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.
JACK KEROUAC my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially free...
JACK KEROUAC The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
JACK KEROUAC Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
JACK KEROUAC At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
JACK KEROUAC Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th...
JACK KEROUAC And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles fol...
JACK KEROUAC As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clou...
JACK KEROUAC My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and ask...
JACK KEROUAC But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wa...
JACK KEROUAC The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w...
JACK KEROUAC The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is ...
JACK KEROUAC But Dave Wain that lean rangy red head Welchman with his penchant for going off in Willie to fish in...
JACK KEROUAC Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of putting down society an...
JACK KEROUAC …of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.
JACK KEROUAC I know who the great poets are.
JACK KEROUAC I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll ru...
JACK KEROUAC Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
JACK KEROUAC Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened t...
JACK KEROUAC What's Your Road, Man?
JACK KEROUAC My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
JACK KEROUAC No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderne...
JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
JACK KEROUAC All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
JACK KEROUAC Accept loss forever.
JACK KEROUAC All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
JACK KEROUAC I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not onl...
JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!.
JACK KEROUAC What is the universe
but a lot of waves
And a craving desire
is a wave…
JACK KEROUAC