Jack Kerouac Quotes

“Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

topic:love

“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, On the Road

topic:love pain

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

topic:life travel

“This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

topic:belief

“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk—real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

topic:talking romance

“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow — Hate's so easy compared”

― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur

topic:hate

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

topic:dream stars

“a homeless man has reason to cry, everything in the world is pointed against him.”

― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

topic:home

“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.”

― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

topic:want

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