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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9564f78 | The thing was to wear a bathing suit and look good in it, to somehow make yourself worthy of the scenario you were volunteering for. | Tom Perrotta | ||
| 87274a9 | besides which Lucille would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 820c902 | By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's disapproval and I felt glad and slept well. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 6055f28 | The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 68eb566 | Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 5242bad | I like too many things and get confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 03ab6d4 | I remember him standing under a streetlamp. 'Just as we passed that other lamp I was going to tell you a further thing, Sal, but now I am parenthetically continuing with a new thought and by the time we reach the next I'll return to the original subject, agreed?' I certainly agreed. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| facbe85 | I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionairess, or become the greatest poet since Rimbaud. But he keeps rushing out to see the midget auto races | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 49b7e71 | I wanta swim in rivers and drink goatmilk and talk with priests and just read Chinese books and amble around the valleys talking to farmers and their children. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| a91a0de | The old tree brooded over me silently, a living thing. I heard a mouse snoring in the garden weeds. The rooftops of Berkeley looked like pitiful living meat sheltering grieving phantoms from the enternality of the heavens which they feared to face. By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's disapproval and I felt glad and slept well. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| d3f759f | Non avevo niente da offrire a nessuno tranne la mia confusione. | on-the-road sulla-strada | Jack Kerouac | |
| b944580 | I couldn't meet a girl without saying to myself, What kind of wife would she make? | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 8d67be1 | Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 22ff2f2 | Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the word and would raise mean's souls to joy. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 742a64a | Ah the mad hearts of all of us. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 788361a | Remember that book I told you about the first sip is joy the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 50bd6c4 | This is a thing which astonishes me no end, but affects you not. | typewriter | Jack Kerouac | |
| b009be4 | Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by that? Camille has to stay home and mind the baby now you're gone--how can she keep her job? and she never wants to see you again and I don't blame her. If you see Ed along the road you tell him to come back to me or I'll kill him." Just as flat as that. It was the saddest night. I felt as if I was with strange brothers and sisters in a pitif.. | beat-generation | Jack Kerouac | |
| ca3bb1f | Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our loved ones and dear friends one by one and finally our own life, to see it proved?...But cold morning would return, with clouds billowing out of Lightning Gorge like giant smoke, the lake below still cerulean neutral, and empty space the same as ever. O gnashing teeth of earth, where would it all lead to but to prove that the proving itself .. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 0514efd | the innocent seriousness with which she told her story and I'd listened to so often and myself told-- wide eyed hugging in heaven together-- hipsters of America in the 1950's sitting in a dim room-- the clash of the streets beyond the window's bare soft sill. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 740e086 | Oh what was the racket that backeted and smashed in raging might, to make this oil-puddle world?-- | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 20542c7 | Lonely as America, a throatpierced sound in the night. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 3996167 | I could have made my whole life like that morning just on the strength of pure understanding and willingness to live and go along, God it was all the most beautiful thing that ever happened to me in its own way - but it was all sinister. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 50b5541 | It was remarkable how Dean could go mad and then suddenly continue with his soul - which I think is wrapped up in a fast car, a coast to reach, and a woman at the end of the road - calmly and sanely as though nothing had happened. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| ae047b4 | Shared emotions experienced by two souls,empathy on unequivocal level which Davey believed would change entire species of mankind if only secret of empathy could be telepathically shared with humanity,one soul after another, until every soul understood true meaning of love. | chakras christina-westover empathy fiction humanity jack-kerouac love photography poetry san-francisco soul telepathy | Christina Westover | |
| 3c254b6 | I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| fe69d7e | You'd never care to plant some roots in society, I suppose," mused the other." | Jack Kerouac | ||
| fa11e0c | Diamond Sutra says, 'Make no formed conceptions about the realness of existence nor about the unrealness of existence," or words like that. Handcuffs will get soft and billy clubs will topple over, let's go on being free anyhow." | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 9623922 | The innumerable worlds in the Milky Way, words. | words worlds | Jack Kerouac | |
| 9757fe6 | All around me were the noise of the crazy gold-coast city. And this was my Hollywood career - this was my last night in Hollywood, and I was spreading mustard on my lap in back of a parking-lot john. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 5ce3251 | We stopped in the unimaginable softness (293). | Jack Kerouac | ||
| fa96a11 | In winter darkness, the Baghdad Arabian keen blue deepness of the piercing lovely January winter's dusk--it used to tear my heart out, one stabbing soft star was in the middle of the magicalest blue, throbbing like love--I saw Maggie's black hair in this night-- In the shelves of Orion her eye shades, borrowed, gleamed a dark and proud vellum somber power brooding rich bracelets of the moon rose from our snow, and surrounded the mystery. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| b52b21b | Because he was always tremendously generated towards complete relationship with his women to the point where they ended up in one convoluted octopus mess of souls and tears and fellatio and hotel room schemes and rubbing in and out of cars and doors and great crises in the middle of the night... (p. 128) | promiscuity relationships | Jack Kerouac | |
| 39eb0eb | He no longer cared about anything (as before) but now he also cared about everything in principle; that is to say, it was all the same to him and he belonged to the world and there was nothing he could do about it. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 260b166 | I couldn't take my eyes off the little dark girl and the way, like a queen, she walked around and was even reduced by the sullen bartender to menial tasks such as bringing us drinks and sweeping the back. Of all the girls in there she needed the money most; maybe her mother had come to get money from her for her little infant/ sisters and brothers. It never, never occurred to me just to approach her and give her some money. I have a feeling.. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 91f4e3c | poor examples because of mechanical needs of typing, of the flow of river sounds, words, dark, leading to the future and attesting to the madness, hollowness, ring and roar of my mind which blessed or unblessed is where trees sing -- in a funny wind -- well-being believes he'll go to heaven -- a word to the wise is enough -- 'Smart went Crazy | Jack Kerouac | ||
| a992697 | When daybreak came we were zooming through New Jersey with the great cloud of Metropolitan New York rising before us in the snowy distance. Dean had a sweater wrapped around his ears to keep warm. He said we were a band of Arabs coming in to blow up New York. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| cffa1ab | Now we were on the great Texas plain and, as Dean said, "You drive and drive and you're still in Texas tomorrow night." | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 625c666 | When I got better I realized what a rat he was, but then I had to understand the impossible complexity of his life, how he had to leave me there, sick, to get on with his wives and woes. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 17c4dc1 | I have finally taught Dean that he can do anything he wants, become mayor of Denver, marry a millionaires, or become the greatest poet since Rimbaud. But he keeps rushing out to see the midget auto races. I go with him. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| ed7e17d | I know the secrets; I dig Joyce and Proust above Melville and Celine. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| 61b2b6b | 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 -- colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and .. | Jack Kerouac | ||
| f66759f | All you want to do is run out there and get laid and get beat up and get screwed up and get old and sick and banged around by samsara, you fucking eternal meat of comeback you | Jack Kerouac | ||
| b5907b4 | and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't you know that God is Pooh Bear? | Jack Kerouac |