Quotes Tagged With :kerouac

writers like Jack Kerouac (who called himself an "urban Thoreau") set forth to redefine and rediscover....

I sit down and say, and I run all my friends and relatives and enemies one by one in this, without entertaining....

Tis true what Hemingway says--if we're lucky enough to live our dreams in youth, as Ernest Hemingway....

If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in....

Hateful bitch of a world, it wouldn't ever last.

I was always aware that Jack loved women not only for their bodies but for the stories that came into....

It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge....

I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later....

A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is....

Buds in the snow—the deadly fightbetween two birds