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American Novelist, Writer, Poet March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969

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Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk? real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious. Jack Kerouac
The yard was full of tomato plants about to ripen, and mint, mint, everything smelling of mint, and one fine old tree that I loved to sit under on those cool perfect starry California October nights unmatched anywhere in the world. Jack Kerouac
He had never felt anything like that before - yet somehow he knew that from now on he would always feel like that, always, and something caught at his throat as he realized what a strange sad adventure life might get to be, strange and sad and still much more beautiful and amazing than he could ever have imagined because it was so really, strangely sad. Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac quote: "We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at..."
We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time. Jack Kerouac
In my madness I was actually in love with her for the few hours it all lasted; it was the same unmistakable ache and stab across the mind, the same sighs, the same pain, and above all the same reluctance and fear to approach. Jack Kerouac
...notice how he will come to manhood with his own particular soul bespeaking itself through the windows which are his eyes, and such lovely eyes surely do prophesy and indicate the loveliest of souls. Jack Kerouac
At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver colored section, wishing I were a Negro, feeling that the best the white world had offered was not enough ecstasy for me, not enough life, joy, kicks, darkness, music, not enough night... I wished I were a Denver Mexican, or even a poor overworked Jap, anything but what I was so drearily, a "white man" disillusioned. All my life I'd had white ambitions; that was why I'd abandoned a good woman... Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac quote: "Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them..."
Forgive everyone for your own sins and be sure to tell them you love them which you do. Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac quote: "Pain or love or danger makes you real again...."
Pain or love or danger makes you real again.... Jack Kerouac
What is he aching to do? What are we all aching to do? What do we want?” She didn’t know. She yawned. She was sleepy. It was too much. Nobody could tell. Nobody would ever tell. It was all over. She was eighteen and most lovely, and lost. Jack Kerouac
Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it. Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac quote: "I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta."
I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta. Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac quote: "Will you love me in December as you do in May?"
Will you love me in December as you do in May? Jack Kerouac
I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles? I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that? I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life? This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac quote: "Like Goethe at 80, you know the futility of love and you..."
Like Goethe at 80, you know the futility of love and you shrug--you shrug away the warm kiss Jack Kerouac

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