It'll take you eternities to get rid of me,' she adds sadly, which makes me jealous, I want her to say I'll never get rid of her - I wanta be chased till eternity till I catch her. Jack Kerouac More Quotes by Jack Kerouac More Quotes From Jack Kerouac Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back Jack Kerouac nowhere-to-go land america To the children and the innocent it's all the same. Jack Kerouac vapor innocent children But night would come and with it the mountain moon and the lake would be moon - laned and I'd go out and sit in the grass and meditate facing west, wishing there were a Personal God in all this impersonal matter. Jack Kerouac matter wish ...do you think God made the world to amuse himself because he was bored? Because if so he would have to be mean. Jack Kerouac bored mean thinking Your mind makes out the orange by seeing it, hearing it, touching it, smelling it, tasting it and thinking about it but without this mind, you call it, the orange would not be seen or heard or smelled or tasted or even mentally noticed, it's actually, that orange, depending on your mind to exist! Don't you see that? By itself it's a no-thing, it's really mental, it's seen only of your mind. In other words it's empty and awake. Jack Kerouac orange touching thinking Your Buddhism has made you mean Ray and makes you even afraid to take your clothes off for a simple healthy orgy Jack Kerouac buddhism simple mean It's only through form that we can realize emptiness Jack Kerouac emptiness realizing form Vanity of vanities… all is vanity.’ You kill yourself to get to the grave. Especially you kill yourself to get to the grave before you die; and the name of the grave is ‘success’, the name of that grave is hullabullo boom boom horseshit. Jack Kerouac vanity graves names and never really thought I'd amount to anything. It was precisely what I wanted the whole world to think; then I could sneak in, if that's what they wanted, and sneak out again, which I did. Jack Kerouac sneak-in world thinking Somebody had tipped the American continent like a pinball machine and all the goofballs had come rolling to LA in the southwest corner. I cried for all of us. There was no end to the American sadness and the American madness. Someday we'll all start laughing and roll on the ground when we realize how funny it's been. Jack Kerouac machines sadness laughing You were my last chance' she's said but don't all women say that? - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared - Jack Kerouac realization mean needs Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now so vast we can't communicate them anymore and if we tried it would take a million years and a billion books - Too late, too late, the history of everything we've seen together and separately has become a library in itself - The shelves pile higher - They're full of misty documents or documents of the Mist-. Jack Kerouac play book years and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too. A long way to go. Jack Kerouac long believe thinking Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'... But you'll miss all that, just for some old wine.' There's wisdom in wine, goddam it!' I yelled. 'Have a shot! Jack Kerouac drink wine missing I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference. Jack Kerouac differences caring wisdom Will you love me in December as you do in May? Jack Kerouac wisdom may love And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all. Jack Kerouac honesty lasts said We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time. Jack Kerouac wisdom love-is goodbye And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, wiht a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotus-lands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven. - Sal Paradise Jack Kerouac angel fall moving His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line. Jack Kerouac bulls ugly-things lines
