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Jack Kerouac

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Love has more depth as you get older.
KIRK DOUGLAS As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.
EDDIE MURPHY People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less
SARAH DESSEN The older you get the more you understand what you're doing.
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
RACHEL WEISZ He mentioned that he didn't like Jack Kerouac either, but this wasn't quite true. "I don't like peop...
MICHAEL FINKEL It always gets worse as you get older. You get more nervous, there's more to lose. He's got to live ...
SAM MENDES As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
DAVID CRYSTAL No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more...
DANICA PATRICK I think the older you get, the more lax you get, and the less romantic you are.
TOM CULLEN "The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the award...
KIRK DOUGLAS The older you get, the more awards you get. So, if you live long enough, then you get all the awards...
KIRK DOUGLAS You don't get older, you get better.
SHIRLEY BASSEY I suspect the older you get the more invisible you become.
NICK CAVE Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glor...
JACK KEROUAC Everything fell apart in me. How are things with you?
JACK KEROUAC As men get older, the toys get more expensive.
MARVIN DAVIS I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
GARY HUME As you get older, the pickings get slimmer, but the people don't
CARRIE FISHER The older you get, the more theories you make up about things.
JAMESON CURRIER As you get older, your idiosyncrasies become sort of exaggerated. So you are who you have always bee...
GEMMA JONES You don't get older, you get better.
SHIRLEY BASSEY As you get older you appreciate the triple-double a little more. It would be really nice to get one ...
JASON KIDD I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can't get bitter, we can't get jaded.
TAYLOR SWIFT Long-time viewing of Internet violence tend to change a person's temperament, making the person pron...
YOU QUANXI If positive and healthy materials are absent, negative materials are sure to be dominant in the cybe...
YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU In New York, I much prefer playing older because as characters get older, they get more interesting.
DANNY PINTAURO As you get older, you see the world at a different angle, maybe more cynically, but I just bury my a...
ZACH GALIFIANAKIS Life does throw some hard stuff at you as you get older, much harder. But you are more able to deal ...
ANDREA CORR Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.
O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, ...
FRANK O'HARA You set paths for yourself, but as you get older, things change.
IAN MCSHANE But, you know, as you get older, my God, the parts get more varied. There's a lot of fun to be had d...
ALAN BATES Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
KEITH RICHARDS Getting old is a fascinating thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
KEITH RICHARDS The problems tend to get worse as you grow older,
GREGORY MILLER As you get older you realise that nothing lasts forever. It's not depressing, but it does make m...
VICTORIA LEGRAND I think as you get older, you tend to think of teenagers as really young.
EMMA ROBERTS You know, I've often thought if I were much older, I might not have done that, ... As you get older,...
KIRK DOUGLAS As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what wil...
WAYNE ROONEY As you get older you have more respect and empathy for your parents. Now I have a great relationship...
HUGH JACKMAN The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.
NICOLE RICHIE As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.
JOHN C. MAXWELL I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of...
THOMAS HARRIS I find that as you get older, you start to simplify things in general.
GEORGE CLOONEY As you get older, you develop your style. For me, the simpler, the better.
CHERYL LADD Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.
KIN HUBBARD We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.
ROBERT ANTHONY It's a lot of hard work, competing and not giving up. I think you get more appreciated the older...
DANIEL NESTOR People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite...
YOKO ONO As you get older and fatter, good clothes can hide a lot.
GRAYDON CARTER As you get older, you have to fix your insides, because your face naturally gets a little crabby-loo...
LEA THOMPSON He was one of the first to treat these people as serious American writers, ... Memory Babe: A Critic...
GERALD NICOSIA I still get a lot of material but I find that as one gets older you get more fussy. You know you'...
NORMAN JEWISON I think that as you get older, you become aware of everything that could go wrong.
SAMANTHA BOND The thing about being an actor is that as we get older, there are more and more characters to explor...
VICTORIA CLARK As I get older I'm more and more comfortable being alone.
SIENNA MILLER You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older
ANOUK AIMEE You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.
ANOUK AIMEE If you're not getting happier as you get older, then you're fuckin' up
ANI DIFRANCO Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
VIGGO MORTENSEN As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yoursel...
TROY VINCENT You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.
GEORGE BURNS Jack Kerouac influenced me quite a bit as a writer... in the Arab sense that the enemy of my enemy w...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON When you get older, 10 matches a year are enough.
OTTMAR HITZFELD The older you get, the more you fight for your own identity and start to live your own life.
TIA MOWRY Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that beco...
ALEX TREBEK My frankness has got me into a lot of trouble. I try to temper it down now. As you get older, you ge...
TWINKLE KHANNA The older you get, the more yourself you can be and the less worried you are about what other people...
WINONA RYDER You get older, you mature. I've paid my dues.
ANTONIO BRYANT Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound exte...
PAUL THEROUX I have friends who didn't turn 60. As you get older, your perspective clears.
BOB WATT As a kid, you dream of winning the Stanley Cup. As you get older, you understand the importance of w...
JOE SAKIC The cool thing is that, unlike film, the theatre roles for women get better and better as you get ol...
IDINA MENZEL There's always a trade-off. You save money when you don't buy new aircraft, but then you spend a lot...
ALAN SBARRA Jack Holloway told me he would get the son of a bitch who killed my child and the mate of my child,"...
JOHN SCALZI When you're young, try to be realistic; as you get older, become idealistic. You'll live lon...
ANTHONY J. D'ANGELO As you get older, you find that often the wheat, disentangling itself from the chaff, comes out to m...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS You start realising as you get older that there are some kids who don't know who you are.
DAVID BECKHAM You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.
BERNHARD LANGER I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same...
VINCE VAUGHN We all get heavier as we get older because there is a lot more information in our heads.
VLADE DIVAC You get older, but you don't ever feel grown up
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY As you get older, the summer is less of a vacation and more of a training period by yourself away fr...
AARON RODGERS Camminavo nella sera piena di lillà con tutti i muscoli indolenziti in mezzo alle luci della 27a St...
JACK KEROUAC Il mondo mi deve un paio di cose.
JACK KEROUAC When I was younger, I was more self-conscious about living up to or surpassing the expectations of o...
IVANKA TRUMP As you get older, what you fear is losing your vitality and the ability to take care of yourself.
JERRY COFFEY The old idea that you grow wiser as you get older, and you learn from your elders, is actually compl...
ROMESH GUNESEKERA Sex? Unfortunately, as you get older - and I shouldn't admit this - there are other things that ...
ALEX TREBEK When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and t...
WAYNE ROONEY I don't think that acting is as youth-obsessed as the general culture. In acting, as you get old...
IAN MCSHANE As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self...
RAFAEL NADAL As you get bigger and your customer base gets as older, you're forced to become stodgy and conservat...
MATT ASAY If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
MARIO ANDRETTI If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.
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JACK KEROUAC Accept loss forever.
JACK KEROUAC Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
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JACK KEROUAC Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
JACK KEROUAC I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not onl...
JACK KEROUAC All of life is a foreign country.
JACK KEROUAC My witness is the empty sky.
JACK KEROUAC I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.
JACK KEROUAC I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
JACK KEROUAC It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose b...
JACK KEROUAC I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as p...
JACK KEROUAC And I said, 'That last thing is what you can't get, Carlo. Nobody can get to that last thing. We kee...
JACK KEROUAC It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.
JACK KEROUAC Il pouvait à peine placer un mot tellement ça l'excitait de vivre.
JACK KEROUAC Paradise!' he screamed. 'The one and only indispensable Paradise.
JACK KEROUAC What's Your Road, Man?
JACK KEROUAC The dream is already ended and we're already awake in the golden eternity.
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JACK KEROUAC If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.
JACK KEROUAC One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
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JACK KEROUAC [...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be s...
JACK KEROUAC My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
JACK KEROUAC All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
JACK KEROUAC No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderne...
JACK KEROUAC But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and shambled after as I've been doing all my...
JACK KEROUAC Woe to those who spit on the beat generation, the wind will blow it back.
KEROUAC JACK After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just...
JACK KEROUAC This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.
JACK KEROUAC Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
JACK KEROUAC Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
JACK KEROUAC Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened t...
JACK KEROUAC Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.
JACK KEROUAC The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,...
JACK KEROUAC Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
JACK KEROUAC I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversati...
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JACK KEROUAC because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere t...
JACK KEROUAC One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.
JACK KEROUAC Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th...
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JACK KEROUAC It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to h...
JACK KEROUAC So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don't be sorry
JACK KEROUAC Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun t...
JACK KEROUAC I promise I shall never give up, and that I'll die yelling and laughing, and that until then I'll ru...
JACK KEROUAC Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.
JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!.
JACK KEROUAC I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the message that was transm...
JACK KEROUAC I was just looking at the jukebox. Just playing records. She said, You want to play with me?
I sa...
JACK KEROUAC The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved,...
JACK KEROUAC There is universal substance which is divine substance because where else can it be?
JACK KEROUAC If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by sca...
JACK KEROUAC You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
JACK KEROUAC Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of interest in sub...
JACK KEROUAC Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and loo...
JACK KEROUAC I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was ...
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JACK KEROUAC The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view
JACK KEROUAC A scene should be selected by the writer for haunted-ness-of-mind interest.
If you're not haun...
JACK KEROUAC I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest mom...
JACK KEROUAC And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane peopl...
JACK KEROUAC What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anyw...
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JACK KEROUAC Besides which, she would never understand me because I like too many things and get all confused and...
JACK KEROUAC Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
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JACK KEROUAC There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.
JACK KEROUAC Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away...
JACK KEROUAC What is the feeling when you're driving away from people, and they recede on the plain till you see ...
JACK KEROUAC Everything is all right forever and forever and forever.
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JACK KEROUAC ...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds ...
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JACK KEROUAC Everybody was yelling 'Go! Go! Go!' (like a jam session),
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JACK KEROUAC Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to ...
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JACK KEROUAC Aw I don't wanta go to no such thing, I just wanta drink in alleys.'...
But you'll miss all tha...
JACK KEROUAC A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direct...
JACK KEROUAC It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.
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JACK KEROUAC Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.
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JACK KEROUAC Maybe that's what life is...a wink of the eye and winking stars.
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JACK KEROUAC What’s in store for me in the direction I don’t take?
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JACK KEROUAC ...and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, ...
JACK KEROUAC Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine...
JACK KEROUAC Buds in the snow
—the deadly fight
between two birds
JACK KEROUAC The other man, just as
lonesome as I am
In this empty universe
JACK KEROUAC Hitch hiked a thousand
miles and brought
You wine
JACK KEROUAC November the seventh
The last
Faint cricket
JACK KEROUAC They understand death, they stand there in the church under the skies that have a beginningless past...
JACK KEROUAC Listen closely... the eternal hush of silence goes on and on throughout all this, and has been going...
JACK KEROUAC Because he was always tremendously generated towards complete relationship with his women to the poi...
JACK KEROUAC ...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in...
JACK KEROUAC Here I was at the end of America - no more land - and now there was nowhere to go but back.
JACK KEROUAC I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air - air you can kiss - and palms.
JACK KEROUAC What is the universe
but a lot of waves
And a craving desire
is a wave…
JACK KEROUAC Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.
JACK KEROUAC And suddenly, not a soul's at the store as for other & similar & just as blank reasons, they...
JACK KEROUAC ...the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fi...
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JACK KEROUAC I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.
JACK KEROUAC As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.
JACK KEROUAC Houses are full of things that gather dust
JACK KEROUAC beautiful insane
in the rain
JACK KEROUAC My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it's bound to...
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JACK KEROUAC Get married and have halfbreed babies, manuscripts, home¬spun blankets and mother’s milk on your ...
JACK KEROUAC Don't use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.
JACK KEROUAC I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all
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JACK KEROUAC Rocks are space, and space is illusion.
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JACK KEROUAC Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.
JACK KEROUAC It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.
JACK KEROUAC i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosi...
JACK KEROUAC I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.
JACK KEROUAC Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?
JACK KEROUAC I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wan...
JACK KEROUAC The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.
JACK KEROUAC my karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially free...
JACK KEROUAC I see a vision of a great rucksack revolution thousands or even millions of young Americans wanderin...
JACK KEROUAC The silence was an intense roar.
JACK KEROUAC Pretty girls make graves
JACK KEROUAC Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glor...
JACK KEROUAC colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds it...
JACK KEROUAC The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.
JACK KEROUAC Are we fallen angels who didn't want to believe that nothing is nothing and so were born to lose our...
JACK KEROUAC Pain or love or danger makes you real again....
JACK KEROUAC Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.
JACK KEROUAC I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, th...
JACK KEROUAC It all ends in tears anyway.
JACK KEROUAC At lilac evening I walked with every muscle aching among the lights of 27th and Welton in the Denver...
JACK KEROUAC At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave.
JACK KEROUAC Great laughter rang from all sides. I wondered what the Spirit of the Mountain was thinking, and loo...
JACK KEROUAC It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.
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JACK KEROUAC ...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact ...
JACK KEROUAC Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your...
JACK KEROUAC For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze...
JACK KEROUAC Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana ...
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JACK KEROUAC Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.
JACK KEROUAC And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was th...
JACK KEROUAC I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
JACK KEROUAC I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my f...
JACK KEROUAC What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to ask that all the time of girls.
I don't k...
JACK KEROUAC We agreed to love each other madly.
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JACK KEROUAC Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't...
JACK KEROUAC Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, th...
JACK KEROUAC And I dreamed of a home long ago in New England, my little kitkats trying to go a thousand miles fol...
JACK KEROUAC The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I w...
JACK KEROUAC ...because in one sense the drinker learns wisdom, in the words of Goethe or Blake or whichever it w...
JACK KEROUAC ...Cody is furiously explaining to his little son Tim 'Never let the right hand know what your left ...
JACK KEROUAC ...the great black bird broods outside my window in the high dark night waiting to enfold me when I ...
JACK KEROUAC I went to sit in the bus station and think this over. I ate another apple pie and ice cream; that’...
JACK KEROUAC The smog was heavy, my eyes were weeping from it, the sun was hot, the air stank, a regular hell is ...
JACK KEROUAC I could hear everything, together with the hum of my hotel neon. I never felt sadder in my life. LA ...
JACK KEROUAC He lived with his mother, father and sister; had a room of his own, with the fourth-floor windows st...
JACK KEROUAC And at night the river flows, it bears pale stars on the holy water, some sink like veils, some show...
JACK KEROUAC Now you're going East with Sal," Galatea said, "and what do you think you're going to accomplish by ...
JACK KEROUAC It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowl...
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