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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
He's a great mysterious Bodhisattva I think maybe a reincarnation of Asagna the great Mahayana scholar of the old centuries." "And who am I?" "I dunno, maybe you're Goat.
~ Jack Kerouac
clichés are truisms and all truisms are true)—On
~ Jack Kerouac
the restaurant itself is weird especially because of a big raunch mad thicklipped sloppy young Fillipino woman sitting alone at the end of the restaurant gobbling up her food obscenely and looking at us insolently as tho to say Fuck you, I eat the way I like splashing gravy everywhere (p. 156)
~ 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
Dean had a sweater wrapped around his ears to keep warm. He said we were a band of Arabs coming in to blow up New York.
~ Jack Kerouac
why not I be like the Void, inexhaustibly fertile, beyond serenity, beyond even gladness, just Old Jack
~ Jack Kerouac
Late afternoon, it was I not the void that changed.
~ Jack Kerouac
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 in the mind.
~ Jack Kerouac
Ere so sober Emily/ Did New England sow/ With brooms of activity/ I'd the tree-rock spoken to.
~ Jack Kerouac
I have such a hopeless dream of walking or being there at night, nothing happens, I just pass, everything is unbearably over with.
~ Jack Kerouac
Have some more wine, Smith, you're not making sense.
~ Jack Kerouac
Yass, yass. He said he wants to see the 'babby' spelt with two b's when he can get to Frisco.
~ Jack Kerouac
Mudface is the mud in your goatface. What would you say if someone was asked the question 'Does a dog have a Buddha nature?' and said 'Woof!
~ Jack Kerouac
Problemas, ya ves, son la palabra que generaliza los motivos por los que Dios existe.
~ Jack Kerouac
He seems to me to be headed for his ideal fate, which is compulsive psychosis dashed with a jigger of psychopathic irresponsibility and violence.
~ Jack Kerouac
Thus it was that in obedience to the law laid down by his mother, and in obedience to the law of that unknown and nameless thing, fear, he kept away from the mouth of the cave.
~ Jack London
No man can be intellectually insulted. Insult, in its very nature, is emotional.
~ Jack London
I reckon you've called the turn, Bill. That wolf's a dog, an' it's eaten fish many's the time from the hand of man. (ch. 2.)
~ Jack London
It was the masterful and incommunicable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. 
~ Jack London
The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused.
~ Jack London
Yet all three animals were keyed to a tenseness of living that was almost painful, and scarcely ever would it come to them to be more alive than they were then in their seeming petrifaction.
~ Jack London
That TV show, 'After Thought,' is really exciting. It's a cross between 'Inception' and 'CSI' that I'm working on with Melissa Rosenberg from the 'Twilight' movies.
~ Evan Daugherty