This is a thing which astonishes me no end, but affects you not.
Jack KerouacTags: atop-an-underwood typewriter
A man cannot impart the true feeling of things to others unless he himself has experienced what he is trying to tell of.
Jack KerouacTags: man beat experience-mistakes-wisdom prose jack-kerouac atop-an-underwood early-stories-and-other-writings
Did you ever stand on a street corner in American at five o'clock in the morning?
I did.
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I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.
Jack KerouacTags: inspirational loneliness beat prose jack-kerouac young-writers atop-an-underwood albert-halper locomotive
A poet is a blind optimist.
The world is against him for
many reasons. But the
poet persists. He believes
that he is on the right track,
no matter what any of his
fellow men say. In his
eternal search for truth, the
poet is alone.
He tries to be timeless in a
society built on time.
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I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?
Jack KerouacTags: beat death-and-dying prose fear-of-death jack-kerouac fleeting-life atop-an-underwood early-stories-and-other-writings youth-is-temporary
The Grim Reaper isn't grim at all; he's a life-saver. He isn't grim because he isn't anything. . . . he is nothing. And nothing is a hell of a lot better than anything. So long, boys.
Jack KerouacTags: autobiography beat memoir prose short-stories prose-poetry jack-kerouac atop-an-underwood
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