Quote #17

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

More from Jack Kerouac

  1. You can't fight City Hall. It keeps changing its name.
  2. As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.
  3. My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But…
  4. So long and take it easy, because if you start taking things seriously, it is the end of you.
  5. All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.
  6. All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
  7. It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
  8. The tree looks like a dog, barking at heaven.

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