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For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.


Jack Kerouac

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JACK KEROUAC Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I heard––mañana ...
JACK KEROUAC His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because...
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.
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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