Author: Jack Kerouac

Quotes

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 our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

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

- Jack Kerouac

All of life is a foreign country.

All of life is a foreign country.

- 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

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

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

- 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

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

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.

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

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

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