More from Jack Kerouac

  1. 'Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea,' said Japhy. 'Remember that book I told you about; the first sip is joy, the second is gl…
  2. Colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of…
  3. So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense al…
  4. I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, lik…
  5. What difference does it make after all? - anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All…
  6. Sociability is just a big smile, and a big smile is nothing but teeth.
  7. The car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced …
  8. I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

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