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Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
American Novelist
Born: Mar 12, 1922
Died: Oct 21, 1969
About Go Great Life Really You
Related authors: Elie Wiesel Ernest Hemingway H. P. Lovecraft James Baldwin John Updike Leo Rosten Nathaniel Hawthorne Richard Bach
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... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles. Jack Kerouac
Time Me People Live Saved Everything Mad Fabulous Only Like Talk Yellow Same Roman Candles Same Time Burn Who
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. Jack Kerouac
Great Great Things Trends Those Fads Opinion Accomplished Yield Who Popular Popular Opinion Things
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. Jack Kerouac
Life Life Is A Stars Eye Wink Maybe
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion. Jack Kerouac
Confusion Own Nothing My Own Except Had Offer Anybody
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them. Jack Kerouac
Failure Fault Control Passions Lack Them
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life. Jack Kerouac
Life Death Hope Great Man Live Others Give Only True Die Them Consciousness
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? Jack Kerouac
Car Thou Thy Shiny America Night
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. Jack Kerouac
Life Matter Suitcases Our Sidewalk Ways Battered Had Road Longer Piled Go Were Again
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow. Jack Kerouac
You Respect Long Humility Bite Bitten Mad Stay Never Like Sorrow Dogs Get Gods Mankind
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. Jack Kerouac
Time Heart World Girl Pain Every Every Time Saw Direction Opposite Opposite Direction Did Going Loved Who
All of life is a foreign country. Jack Kerouac
Life Life Is A Country Foreign Foreign Country
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. Jack Kerouac
World Dust Nothing Lot End Just In The End Means Avoid Drag
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken. Jack Kerouac
Become Secretly Immediately Course Offer Want Them
As you get older, you get more... genealogical. Jack Kerouac
You Older More Get
My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always. Jack Kerouac
Mother Father Sister Voted Always Republican
I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove. Jack Kerouac
Winter Stove Waves Vanilla Kitchen Around Got Boyhood
The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners. Jack Kerouac
Church Mysteries Constituents Ritual Mysticism Weird Catholic Catholic Church Till Very Sown Much Lives
It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems. Jack Kerouac
Long Indian Silly Poems Write Hard
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on. Jack Kerouac
Fault Something Beatnik Writings Hang So-Called Certain Theories Bohemian Elements Found Peculiar
My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. Jack Kerouac
Manners Sweet Times
I really hate to write. Jack Kerouac
Hate Write Really
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew. Jack Kerouac
Life People Tell About Simply Knew True Alright True Life Fiction Stories Happened Symbolism
I know who the great poets are. Jack Kerouac
Great Poets Know Who
I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.' Jack Kerouac
Wallace Really Champ
I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic. Jack Kerouac
Beatnik Catholic
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me. Jack Kerouac
Me You Heart Confession Believe Born Were Form Literary Public Notoriety
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