Goddamn it, FEELING is what I like in art, not CRAFTINESS and the hiding of feelings. Jack Kerouac More Quotes by Jack Kerouac More Quotes From Jack Kerouac I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. Jack Kerouac starsrunninglife I feel guilty for being a member of the human race. Jack Kerouac big-surracewisdom I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future. Jack Kerouac eastlinesamerica My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. Jack Kerouac failurepassionwisdom Because the only people for me are the mad ones. Jack Kerouac yawninghippiepeople Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach. Jack Kerouac winerunningbeach Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers. Jack Kerouac writinggivingnight Believe in the holy contour of life. Jack Kerouac holyrelaxationbelieve Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away. Jack Kerouac wisdomminddream The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view Jack Kerouac wisdomviewsteacher My life is a vast inconsequential epic. Jack Kerouac inconsequentialepiclife-is I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work. Jack Kerouac firehomecountry So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being. Jack Kerouac wisdomdreamart I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother. Jack Kerouac italianmotheryears No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength Jack Kerouac boredombeing-alonemen Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become. Jack Kerouac bitternessfiercepeople 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 writingwintermemories Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life. Jack Kerouac sweetfatherchildren 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. Jack Kerouac girlwisdomlife Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious. Jack Kerouac gorgeswisdommind
