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Just like Adolf Hitler, when you think of it. The villain who is so outrageous that you can laugh at him becomes tolerated by the public. Which is when he becomes most dangerous[...]
~ Jack Higgins
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~ Jack Higgins
His barge has obviously been spirited away by Charles Ferguson, who has also had his criminal
~ Jack Higgins
I would be obliged if you would simply sit in the corner and listen. Or are the Irish incapable of such a feat?' 'Oh, it's been known,' Devlin said. 'But not often.
~ Jack Higgins
Nothing that would invent a mosquito is worthy of anything but hate.
~ Jack Huberman
The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.
~ Jack Kerouac
Bee, why are you staring at me? I am not a flower??
~ Jack Kerouac
cliches are truisms and all truisms are true
~ Jack Kerouac
Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you're already in heaven now.
~ Jack Kerouac
because to me the only thing that matters is the conceptions in my own mind, there has to be no reality anyway to what I suppose is going on (p. 153)
~ Jack Kerouac
I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.
~ Jack Kerouac
Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.
~ Jack Kerouac
I never dwelt on the dark farcical furious real life of this roaring working world, wow.
~ Jack Kerouac
Gus was looking at him for confirmation of all his sorrows.
~ Jack Kerouac
You'd never care to plant some roots in society, I suppose," mused the other.
~ Jack Kerouac
I realized either I was crazy or the world was crazy; and I picked on the world. And of course I was right.
~ Jack Kerouac
Paradise!' he screamed. 'The one and only indispensable Paradise.
~ Jack Kerouac
Romanlar?mla evlenip, çocuk yerine de k?sa hikayeler edineceÄŸim.
~ Jack Kerouac
clichés are truisms and all truisms are true)—On
~ Jack Kerouac
I see the whole thing popping and parenthesizing in every direction, the story of that house and that kitchen.
~ Jack Kerouac
the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
~ Jack Kerouac
Actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else.
~ Jack Kerouac
why not I be like the Void, inexhaustibly fertile, beyond serenity, beyond even gladness, just Old Jack
~ Jack Kerouac
New Orleans is a very dull town. It's against the law to go to the colored section. The bars are insufferably dreary.
~ Jack Kerouac