Jack Kerouac

jazz enthusiast, friend to Allen and Neal, Catholic spiritualist. drinking myself into an early grave

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I drank sixty glasses of beer and retired to the toilet, where I wrapped myself around the toilet bowl and went to sleep.

[Jack Kerouac @KerouacDaily]

Whenever spring comes to New York I can’t stand the suggestions of the land that come blowing over the river from New Jersey and I’ve got to go. So I went.

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But who can’t sleep like a log in a solitary cabin in the woods, you wake up refreshed and realizing the universe namelessly: the universe is an Angel - but easy enough to say when you’ve had your escape from the gooky city turn into a success

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Alf the Sacred Burro I later called him

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No 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

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I saw Japhy loping along in that curious long stride of the mountainclimber, with a small knapsack on his back filled with books and torch rushes and whatnot which was his small “going to the city” knapsack

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Japhy and I were kind of outlandish-looking on the campus in our old clothes in fact Japhy was considered an eccentric around the campus, which is the usual thing for campuses and college people to think whenever a real man appears on the scene

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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

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Honeythighs

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I would be strange and ragged and like the Prophet who had walked across the land to bring the dark Word, and the only Word I had was “Wow!”

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I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’s practically all I ate all the way across the country

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What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.

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Sometimes you give me such a feeling of superiority, say, moral superiority, that I can’t restrain myself

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On the Road (1957)

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If you were elected to political office and you weren’t allowed to swear in on a religious text, what book would you use?

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As a little boy, you know, I started a very serious forest fire in Massachusetts...and it’s never worried me in the least, because I’ve had only my blithe self to answer for that crime

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love is not love which alters when it altercation finds - O no! ‘tis an ever fix’d lark

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I 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

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But let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious