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Quotes About Excitement

I just won't sleep, I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.
~ Jack Kerouac
But then they danced down the street like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I've been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars...
~ Jack Kerouac
We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).
~ Jack Kerouac
So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
~ Jack Kerouac
We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell
~ Jack Kerouac
I yelled for joy. We passed the bottle. The great blazing stars came out, the far receding hills got dim. I felt like an arrow that could shoot out all the way.
~ Jack Kerouac
it's all the same to me as long as it can be exciting and goes around the world.
~ Jack Kerouac
He knew the road would get more interesting, especially ahead, always ahead.
~ Jack Kerouac
He wasn't drunk on liquor, just drunk on what he liked - crowds of people milling.
~ Jack Kerouac
Hell! I'm glad I did it. It's going to be a change. I call this life!
~ Jack Kerouac
we got out of the car for air and suddenly both of us were stoned with joy to realize that in the darkness all around us was fragrant green grass and the smell of fresh manure and warm waters. 'We're in the South! We've left the winter!' Faint daybreak illuminated green shoots by the side of the road. I took a deep breath; a locomotive howled across the darkness, mobile-bound. So were we. I took off my shirt and exulted
~ Jack Kerouac
Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank traced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.
~ Jack Kerouac
He and I suddenly saw the whole country like an oyster for us to open; and the pearl was there, the pearl was there.
~ Jack Kerouac
When daybreak came we were zooming through New Jersey with the great cloud of Metropolitan New York rising before us in the snowy distance. 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
With frantic Dean I was rushing through the world without a chance to see it.
~ Jack Kerouac
But why think about that when all the golden land's ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?
~ Jack Kerouac
As we rode in the bus in the weird phosphorescent void of the Lincoln Tunnel we leaned on each other with fingers waving and yelled and talked excitedly, and I was beginning to get the bug like Dean.
~ Jack Kerouac
To this boy of New England the May morning was like faint music in the woods again, some unspeakably exciting foregathering of events far in the deep shade of morning pines, all of it stirring there. He could hear it all faintly in the woods from far away, from across the fields and pastures, in the cool misty morning air, and he wanted to go there too.
~ Jack Kerouac
I told you it was kicks. Everybody's kicks, man!
~ Jack Kerouac
He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life, and though he was a con-man, he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and to get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him. He
~ Jack Kerouac
He was simply a youth tremendously excited with life, and though he was a con-man, he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and to get involved with people who would otherwise pay no attention to him.
~ Jack Kerouac
Il pouvait à peine placer un mot tellement ça l'excitait de vivre.
~ Jack Kerouac
But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
~ Jack Kerouac
In all, what Neal was, simply, was tremendously excited with life, and though he was a con-man he was only conning because he wanted so much to live and also to get involved with people that would otherwise pay no attention to him. He
~ Jack Kerouac