"I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
~ Jack Kerouac ~
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Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
More Jack Kerouac quotes
"Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.
"A poet is a blind optimist.The world is against him formany reasons. But thepoet persists. He believesthat he is on the right track,no matter what any...
"I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the on...
"The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot bet...
"A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.
"I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall d...
"It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level...
"...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left hand is doing'...Page 100.
"A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest. If you're not haunted by something, as by a dream, a vision, or a memory, ...
"Work from your own side of literature/ & room fetish, not "publishing's" -
"Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got ...
"Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up ...
"All I wanted and all Neal wanted and all anybody wanted was some kind of penetration into the heart of things where, like in a womb, we could curl up ...
"…of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth.