Jack Kerouac Quotes

American - Novelist March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969

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.

Time, Live, Me, Yellow, People, Mad

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Great, Opinion, Great Things, Things

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars. - Jack Kerouac

Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.

Life, Stars, Eye, Life Is A, Wink, Maybe

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. - Jack Kerouac

If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

Crime, Fault, Moderation, Indifference

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together. - Jack Kerouac

All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.

Dreams, Together, Dream, Human, Mankind

My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.

Failure, Control, Fault, Them, Lack

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

Life, Road, Matter, Go, Our, Ways

All of life is a foreign country.

Life, Life Is A, Country, Foreign

I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

My Own, Nothing, Own, Confusion, Offer

Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

World, End, Nothing, Avoid, Just, Dust

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.

Life, Hope, Death, Man, Great, Live

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.

Girl, Heart, Time, Pain, Loved, World

My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.

Sweet, Manners, Times

As you get older, you get more... genealogical.

You, Get, More, Older

All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.

Style, Power, Road, Better, Stand, Leave

I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.

Beauty, Myself, Famous, Writing, Things

My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

You, Story, Know, Run, Go, Fix

My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.

Father, Mother, Sister, Always, Voted

You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.

You, New, Teach, Old, Tune

My witness is the empty sky. - Jack Kerouac

My witness is the empty sky.

Sky, Empty, Witness

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.

Respect, You, Humility, Long, Mad, Never

Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.

Life, People, True, Tell, Symbolism

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? - Jack Kerouac

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

Car, Night, America, Thou, Shiny, Thy

Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.

Heart, Me, Believe, You, Born, Form

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.

Communication, Yourself, Write

I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.

Winter, Waves, Kitchen, Got, Vanilla

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