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On the Road past Jack Kerouac
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"[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace matter, but burn down, burn, burn down like fabled yellowish roman candles exploding similar spiders across the stars and in the middle yous see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
― Jack Kerouac, On the Route

"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is e'er and then on the road."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the manifestly till you come across their specks dispersing? - it'south the too-huge world vaulting us, and information technology'south good-bye. Simply nosotros lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"A pain stabbed my heart, every bit it did every time I saw a daughter I loved who was going the contrary direction in this too-big world."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Route

"The best teacher is feel and not through someone'south distorted point of view"
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I was surprised, equally ever, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; composure demands that they submit to sex activity immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk virtually souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I realized these were all the snapshots which our children would look at someday with wonder, thinking their parents had lived smooth, well-ordered lives and got up in the morning to walk proudly on the sidewalks of life, never dreaming the raggedy madness and riot of our actual lives, our actual dark, the hell of information technology, the senseless emptiness."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Route

"I woke upwards equally the sun was reddening; and that was the ane distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam exterior, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the deplorable sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for most fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was merely somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars..."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk once again; we had longer means to become. But no affair, the road is life"
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we go at that place.'
'Where we going, human?'
'I don't know but nosotros gotta get."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Route

"But why remember about that when all the aureate lands alee of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make y'all glad you're alive to run into?"
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"Presently it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a royal sunset over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the lord's day the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgandy red, the fields the colour of dear and Spanish mysteries."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"And then in America when the lord's day goes down and I sit on the old jerry-built river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw country that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the Due west Declension, and all that road going, and all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars'll be out, and don't yous know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all the rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what's going to happen to everyone besides the forlorn rags of growing sometime, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father nosotros never found, I think of Dean Moriarty."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"My aunt one time said that the world would never find peace until men brutal at their women'southward feet and asked for forgiveness. "
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"We agreed to love each other madly."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"What do you want out of life?" I asked, and I used to inquire that all the time of girls.
I don't know," she said. "Just wait on tables and try to get forth." She yawned. I put my paw over her mouth and told her not to yawn. I tried to tell her how excited I was virtually life and the things we could do together; saying that, and planning to leave Denver in two days. She turned away wearily. We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when He made life so sad."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the Due east of my youth and the West of my future."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Route

"And for just a moment I had reached the bespeak of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step beyond chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the awareness of decease kicking at my heels to motility on, with a phantom dogging its ain heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels pigeon off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the strong and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotuslands falling open in the magic mothswarm of sky. I could hear an indescribable seething roar which wasn't in my ear but everywhere and had zippo to do with sounds. I realized that I had died and been reborn bags times only only didn't remember peculiarly considering the transitions from life to death and dorsum to life are then ghostly easy, a magical action for cypher, like falling asleep and waking up once more a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of information technology. I realized information technology was simply because of the stability of the intrinsic Mind that these ripples of birth and death took place, like the action of the wind on a sheet of pure, serene, mirror-like water. I felt sugariness, swinging elation, like a big shot of heroin in the mainline vein; like a gulp of wine late in the afternoon and it makes yous shudder; my feet tingled. I thought I was going to dice the very adjacent moment. But I didn't die..."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the adjacent few weeks that was all I heard––mañana a lovely discussion and one that probably means sky."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"Improve to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"LA is the loneliest and virtually vicious of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the wintertime merely there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"For the first fourth dimension in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me. "
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"His friends said, "Why do y'all have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it considering information technology's ugly." All his life was in that line."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking nighttime, a moony dark, and a nighttime to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"...we all must admit that everything is fine and at that place's no demand in the globe to worry, and in fact nosotros should realize what it would mean to us to Empathise that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"I like too many things and become all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

"As nosotros crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the heaven in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven."
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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