Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be g... by Jack Kerouac

Something good will come out of all things yet — And it will be golden and eternal just like that.

Jack Kerouac

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A fine thing to be talking about angels in this day when common thieves smash the holy rosaries of their victims in the street.

rosary angel talking

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw. by Jack Kerouac

Everything I wrote was true because I believed what I saw.

saws truth

Details are the Life of Prose. by Jack Kerouac

Details are the Life of Prose.

prose details writing

Oftentimes an originator of new language forms is called 'pretentious' by jealous talents. But it ain’t whatcha write, it’s the way atcha write it.

jealous writing way

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.

suffering-and-death feelings years

Mankind will someday realize that we are actually in contact with the dead and with the other world, whatever it is; right now we could predict, if we only exerted enough mental will, what is going to happen within the next hundred years and be able to take steps to avoid all kinds of catastrophes. When a man dies he undergoes a mutation in his brain that we know nothing about now but which will be very clear someday if scientists get on the ball. The bastards right now are only interested in seeing if they can blow up the world.

blow men years

"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that a... by Jack Kerouac

"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.

girl wisdom want

ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you by Jack Kerouac

ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you

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Life was dense, dark, ancient. They watched Dean, serious and insane at his raving wheel, with eyes of hawks. All had their hands outstretched. They had come down from the back mountains and higher places to hold forth their hands for something they thought civilization could offer, and they never dreamed the sadness and the poor broken delusion of it.

sadness eye dark

I ate apple pie and ice cream—it was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoon—they were coming home from high school—but I had no time for thoughts like that…So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

girl home beautiful

The unspeakable visions of the individual. by Jack Kerouac

The unspeakable visions of the individual.

unspeakable individual vision

Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Rivi... by Jack Kerouac

Who doesn't feel studious when he doesn't have a girl with a Riviera suntan?

studious girl feels

...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.

wisdom worry mean

We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess - across the night.

land night america

galatea was a serious girl. she was pale and looked like tears all over. big ed passed his hand through his hair and said hello. she looked at him steadily. "where have you been? why did you do this to me?" and she gave dean a dirty look; she knew the score. dean paid absolutely no attention; what he wanted now was food; he asked jane if there was anything. the confusion began right there.

girl hair dirty

In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way, that he had heard from 'real intellectuals.

intellectual real talking

You don't know what to say to me because the kingdom is within...flesh and blood's dream...so you fly now, pay later, all of us...I mean actually it's PAY NOW, FLY LATER

dream mean blood

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

fighting wisdom men

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.

details wisdom mind

We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.

ceilings made wonder