It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. Jack Kerouac More Quotes by Jack Kerouac More Quotes From Jack Kerouac It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time. Jack Kerouac falling-in-love too-much helping Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour. Jack Kerouac silent meditation writing I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved. Jack Kerouac dark sky people The only truth is music. Jack Kerouac inspirational-music music wisdom Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition. Jack Kerouac inhibitions remove Ah, life is a gate, a way, a path to Paradise anyway, why not live for fun and joy and love or some sort of girl by a fireside, why not go to your desire and LAUGH. Jack Kerouac girl love life All of life is a foreign country. Jack Kerouac life country travel Return those shoes to the shoemaker Return this hand to my father This pillow to the pillowmaker Those slippers to the shop. That wainscot to the carpenter, But my mind my tranquil and eternal Mind Return it to whom? Jack Kerouac life-and-love father hands Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. Jack Kerouac inspiring inspirational travel Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. Jack Kerouac stars eye life At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave. Jack Kerouac mud eye night Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty? Jack Kerouac compassion personality sea Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives. Jack Kerouac soul joy talking I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams. Jack Kerouac dream wonderful world Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree. Jack Kerouac bed wisdom sleep Cats yawn because they realize that there's nothing to do. Jack Kerouac realizing cat My shoes are clean from walking in the rain. Jack Kerouac clean shoes rain Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields. Jack Kerouac golden fields sweet In my medicine cabinet, the winter fly has died of old age. Jack Kerouac medicine age winter I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost. Jack Kerouac scared stranger ghost
