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...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.


Jack Kerouac

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JACK KEROUAC Everything fell apart in me. How are things with you?
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PAUL THEROUX The butterfly went on to fly. I stood still to watch as it went by. My eyes followed with longing th...
LEAH DANCEL As we went along, it was my call along with the trainer. I felt great, so I said let's keep going.
NOMAR GARCIAPARRA One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma ...
JACK KEROUAC Kerouac: You're ruining American poetry, O'Hara.
O'Hara: That's more than you ever did for it, ...
FRANK O'HARA I hit this one bump and got high-sided and I kind of went in there with way too much aggression toda...
DARON RAHLVES Maybe that's a haiku, maybe not, it might be a little too complicated," said Japhy. "A real haiku's ...
JACK KEROUAC I thought she grew up a lot during the year and I thought she became a tougher player as we went alo...
MIKE STEELE Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write...
PABLO PICASSO The Hall of Fame's collections are rich and diverse, given baseball's history and role in helping to...
JEFF IDELSON The Hall of Fame's collections are rich and diverse, given baseball's history and role in helping to...
JEFF IDELSON Unable to forgive his own sins, unsatisfied with just the goodness of his heart, [Kerouac] would go ...
GERALD NICOSIA I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.
TIGER WOODS Non avevo niente da offrire a nessuno tranne la mia confusione.
JACK KEROUAC Y es así como, una vez obtenida la esencia de su amor, ahora erijo grandes construcciones verbales,...
JACK KEROUAC If I don't get the goose-bump factor when I'm reading it than I can't do it.
RUSSELL CROWE I grew up in the African bush in Malawi, Tanzania and Uganda, which is my thing. I love the smell of...
GILES FODEN [His friend, novelist Jack Kerouac, was in the audience of about 150 at the performance.] Scores of ...
JACK KEROUAC We were impatient in the first quarter, but we got more patient as the game went along.
ALEX KELLOGG America's Facebook generation shows a submission to standardization that I haven't seen befo...
JARON LANIER I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid ...
PATRICK DEWITT 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 I just love crazy people like this,' Murphy said. 'Jack Kerouac people. Mad to live, mad to die, tha...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON I could do John Wayne, Jack Benny, Jack Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and entertain my friends. But I neve...
PHIL HARTMAN I went to professional men's soccer games, the old North American soccer league at that time, an...
BRANDI CHASTAIN While writing 'Cold Mountain,' I held maps of two geographies, two worlds, in my mind as I w...
CHARLES FRAZIER People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER There was also evidence of misbehavior backstage, ... Stubbed-out joints, copies of Jack Kerouac, a ...
DICK CAVETT I thought we picked it up as we went along. I know I felt better about my pitching after the first i...
KATIE AARON This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS Bill said I was 'developing' at a rapid pace and gave me a different kind of book as a 'reward'. It'...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love you as a river loves the sea;
my every cell longing for you not me.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I can't commit to staying in the $53 million budget. But we will stretch it as far as we can.
HUNTER SPENCER Speaking felt impossible, as contained and enclosed as she was, a longing that went on a loop, a lon...
CATHERINE LACEY I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stor...
FRAZIER GLENN MILLER The truest form of any form of revolutionary Left, whatever you want to call it, was Jack Kerouac, E...
DAVID BOWIE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage...
MANIKA I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate abo...
KATE BECKINSALE I started reading this book about two months ago, because we meet once a week so it takes a while to...
GENA PROCHASKA We went 2-3 in this rough stretch.
TIM REUTER If Jack Kerouac had set out to find a real bookstore in the suburbs, he would still be on the road, ...
MICHAEL WINERIP For the first four years of my life, while he lived, I was not Ti Jean Duluoz, I was Gerard, the wor...
JACK KEROUAC Pretty soon...do you realize there'll be so many additional childhoods and pasts with everybody writ...
JACK KEROUAC I went to the big Picasso retrospective at the Tate in the sixties, and I think I went to an Andy Wa...
MARIANNE FAITHFULL My grandmother's house was just a place of comfort. I mean, I remember going in there, and the k...
KAY ROBERTSON Every day I went to the ballpark in Yankee Stadium as well as on the road people were on my back. Th...
ROGER MARIS My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and po...
MICHAEL SHEEN I don't know if we have ever taken out a flavor and brought it back to the market, but the landscape...
SCOTT WILLIAMSON I live in a landscape, which every single day of my life is enriching.
DANIEL DAY-LEWIS The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
EDITH WHARTON I'm sometimes mystified by people who keep diaries. I never thought of my existence as being tha...
SAUL LEITER Every year, we go through challenges. With my dad, it was what I was going through. As a professiona...
BERNIE WILLIAMS The thing I noticed about Jack was when we did a reading of the script, just to warm up.
AMANDA PEET We knew coming into this season that every game would be hard-fought in this league. We just meshed ...
KAWIKA SHOJI I went to my first dinosaur hall with my father and twin brother. We went to the American Museum of ...
DAVID H. KOCH But the rejections got nicer as I went along. And I let a lot of people read it - not just relatives...
DARDEN NORTH The water would rise in the road and along the ditch out front, not in our yards. And now we get flo...
FRED BALL I savored my time on top of the podium by watching the American flag rise up out of the crowd as the...
HANNAH KEARNEY Working with Placido Domingo, we have coined the term 'American Ring,' and the designers and I are u...
FRANCESCA ZAMBELLO I got involved with it and sort of discovered the story chapter by chapter as I went along,
JACK WILLIAMSON I will say that my days are spent solitary and somewhat lost in thought, and every single time I ina...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND I think it came off my shoulder, but I don't care as it went in. It was an important goal and we kic...
HASAN SALIHAMIDZIC Yes, but another writer I read in high school who just knocked me out was Theodore Dreiser. I read A...
JOAN DIDION I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat.
HENRY J. HEINZ ... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t...
DEYTH BANGER I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing.
DANIEL PINKWATER My pitches were starting to come along as the innings went by. I was trying to be too accurate on th...
DAISUKE MATSUZAKA I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing...
JOHNNY VEGAS Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.
ROBERT HUGHES I kind of gave it away at the bottom of the pitch. I hit a bump, and got back, but lost my line.
KITT FLOWERS After 1957 On The Road sold a trillion levis and a million espresso coffee machines, and also sent c...
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Although aesthetically nugatory, "Beat Culture and the New America" was an exhibition of considerabl...
ROGER KIMBALL Greg was the idol for young Australians, just like Jack Nicklaus was to me and my American generatio...
KENNY PERRY I prayed and asked God to remove the Jack out of my box, and not only did he remove the Jack, but he...
SUSIE L HILL I learned that travel, reading, and watching videos enriched my life along with connecting with peop...
LORRIN L. LEE That's something I believe in as the Republican chair - that we have to continue outreach to eve...
RONNA MCDANIEL I didn't have a handbook, so I've just made it up as I went along.
MALCOLM JONES I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the ga...
BILL LAIMBEER Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.
SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field
WINSTON CHURCHILL An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as...
JACK WHITE The longing for certainty... is in every human mind. But certainty is generally illusion.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The biggest obstacle is creating a program and putting together a quality documentary and doing it i...
JEFF CHIRICO Khaki trousers soon became the province of hipsters like Jack Kerouac and Miles Davis. They were tak...
ROGER STONE Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until ...
C.S. LEWIS People say, 'that bump caused me to trip', but the bump says, 'I am where I have always been. It's t...
DADA BHAGWAN Something must always remain that eludes us ... For power to have an object on which it can be exerc...
ITALO CALVINO He really has been coming along good the last couple weeks. We had that two week stretch off and I f...
CRAIG HOFFMAN Along the times that came and went. I can now feel tranquility among my stars.
DEBBIE NICHOLSON My mom and dad were divorced, and although they got along very well, my mom thought American televis...
JOSS WHEDON I knew Jack since we were both five years old. We went to school together and he was a good guy.
DETECTIVE SCOTT ATWELL I still went to church regularly every Sunday; that is we all went there together. I reverenced the ...
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JACK KEROUAC I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!
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—the deadly fight
between two birds
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lonesome as I am
In this empty universe
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miles and brought
You wine
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The last
Faint cricket
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but a lot of waves
And a craving desire
is a wave…
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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.
JACK KEROUAC My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and ask...
JACK KEROUAC So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, ...
JACK KEROUAC But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wa...
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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