Quotes By Author: Jack Kerouac

“Because I am Beat, I believe in Beatitude and that God so loved the world He gave His only begotten Son to it.”

“Way far back in the beginning of the world was the whirlwind warning that we could all be blown away like chips and cry- Men with tired eyes realize it now, and wait to deform and decay- with maybe they have the power of love yet in their hearts just the same, I just don’t know what that word means anymore- All I want is an ice cream cone”

“Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy ”

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.”

“Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”

“It’s a sort of furtiveness … Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge there’s no use flaunting on that level, the level of the ‘public’, a kind of beatness – I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are – and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world … It’s something like that. So I guess you might say we’re a beat generation.”

“The only truth is music.”

“It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.”

“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”

“Be in love with your life, every detail of it.”