Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors. Jack Kerouac More Quotes by Jack Kerouac More Quotes From Jack Kerouac No fear or shame in the dignity of your experience, language, and knowledge. Jack Kerouac loss forever love-you Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone. Jack Kerouac rich wisdom 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 television sets in each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness to hear the voice crying in the wilderness, to find the ecstacy of the stars, to find the dark mysterious secret of the origin of faceless wonderless crapulous civilization. Jack Kerouac stars dark school What's in store for me in the direction I don't take? Jack Kerouac stores wisdom I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. Jack Kerouac simple dark writing My eyes were glued on life and they were full of tears. Jack Kerouac tears eye wisdom Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that. Jack Kerouac too-much soul waiting I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. Jack Kerouac confusing confusion thinking The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream. Jack Kerouac yoga wisdom dream I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down. Jack Kerouac belief want silly The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is. Jack Kerouac real wisdom spiritual 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. Jack Kerouac wisdom giving men all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country. Jack Kerouac disappear night country Something great is about to happen to me: I'm about to love somebody very much. Jack Kerouac happens I was surprised, as always, be how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility. Jack Kerouac leaving wisdom world All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road. Jack Kerouac wheels wisdom hands What does it mean that I am in this endless universe, thinking that I'm a man sitting under the stars on the terrace of the earth, but actually empty and awake throughout the emptiness and awakedness of everything? It means that I'm empty and awake, that I know I'm empty and awake, and that there's no difference between me and anything else. Jack Kerouac stars men mean Some's bastards, some's ain't. That's the score. Jack Kerouac score You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go. Jack Kerouac this-world world As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven. Jack Kerouac utah sky clouds
