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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
Written by Jack Kerouac
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
Written by Jack Kerouac
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
Written by Jack Kerouac
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
Written by Jack Kerouac
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
Written by Jack Kerouac
You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
Written by Jack Kerouac
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
Written by Jack Kerouac
My witness is the empty sky.
Written by Jack Kerouac
All of life is a foreign country.
Written by Jack Kerouac
Accept loss forever.
Written by Jack Kerouac
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
Written by Jack Kerouac
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
Written by Jack Kerouac
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
Written by Jack Kerouac
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
Written by Jack Kerouac
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Written by Jack Kerouac
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
Written by Jack Kerouac
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.
Written by Jack Kerouac
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
Written by 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 only life, but that great consciousness of life.
Written by Jack Kerouac
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.
Written by Jack Kerouac
My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
Written by Jack Kerouac
I know who the great poets are.
Written by Jack Kerouac
All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.
Written by Jack Kerouac
I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
Written by Jack Kerouac
It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
Written by Jack Kerouac
I don't really go out at all.
Written by Jack Kerouac
I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
Written by Jack Kerouac
I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
Written by Jack Kerouac
My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
Written by Jack Kerouac
My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
Written by Jack Kerouac

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