As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.

Jack Kerouac

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Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothi... by Jack Kerouac

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

dust mean world

If you own a rug you own too much. by Jack Kerouac

If you own a rug you own too much.

too-much wisdom ifs

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the te... by Jack Kerouac

One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.

wisdom kindness peace

John Clellon Holmes... and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent existentialism and I said 'You know John, this is really a beat generation'; and he leapt up and said, 'That's it, that's right!'

generations trying thinking

I spent my entire youth writing slowly with revisions and endless rehashing speculation and deleting and got so I was writing one sentence a day and the sentence had no FEELING. Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings.

feelings writing art

There's wisdom in wine. by Jack Kerouac

There's wisdom in wine.

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut. by Jack Kerouac

I see as much as doors'll allow, open or shut.

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for ch... by Jack Kerouac

I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.

wisdom stories children

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was... by Jack Kerouac

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

things-to-do travel

The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from now till your hand is paralyzed, for THERE will be your work for GOD, since you can not work for God in other ways, and would not, & don't know how, or bend that way, from habit, & from talent in the use & signification & arrangement of the Word.

reflection writing hands

Contrary to the general belief about photography, you don't need bright sunlight: the best moodiest pictures are taken in the dim light of almost dusk, or of rainy days.

rainy-day photography taken

Parade my trouble in front of you guys? Make you realize that my heart is broken . . . that as long as I live I'll have chains dragging me down to the oceans of sad tears that my feet are wet in already.

ocean feet heart

It no longer makes me cry and die and tear myself to see her go because everything goes away from me like that now — girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.

vision girl forever

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends. by Jack Kerouac

We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.

new-friends heartbreaking

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301). by Jack Kerouac

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).

don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh. by Jack Kerouac

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

practice kindness heaven

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing? by Jack Kerouac

If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?

what-you-want want writing

What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?

rainbow body men

My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.