Author: Jack Kerouac

Quotes

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

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

- Jack Kerouac

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

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

- Jack Kerouac

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

- Jack Kerouac

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

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

- Jack Kerouac

All of life is a foreign country.

All of life is a foreign country.

- Jack Kerouac

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

- Jack Kerouac

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

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

- Jack Kerouac

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