Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters
Jack Kerouac
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.”
“I'm afraid that you'll never understand me fully, and because of that, sometimes you'll be frightened, disgusted, annoyed, or pleased.”
“We are sealed in our own little melancholy atmospheres, like planets, and revolving around the sun, our common but distant desire.”
“It reminds me of a remark Lucien [Carr] once made to me: He said "You never seem to give yourself away completely, but of course dark-haired people are so mysterious.”
“If all the world were green, there would be no such thing as the color green. Similarly, men cannot know what it is to be together without otherwise knowing what it is to be apart. If all the world were love, then, how could love exist? This is why we turn away from each other on moments of great happiness and closeness. How can we know happiness and closeness without contrasting them, like lights?”
“I've realized something utterly strange and yet common, I think I've experienced the deep turning about. At present I am completely happy and feel completely free, I love everybody and intend to go on doing so, I know that I am an imaginary blossom and so it my literary life and my literary accomplishments are so many useless imaginary blossoms. Reality isn't images. But I do things anyhow because I am free from self, free from delusion, free from anger, I love everyone equally, as equally empty and equally coming Buddhas.”
“There is a kind of dreary monotony about there characters, an American sameness about them that never varies and is always dull.”
“It's terrible never to find a father in a world chock-full of fathers of all sorts.”
“I decided someday to become a Thoreau of the Mountains. To live like Jesus and Thoreau, except for women.”
“none of us realize the importance, nay the sweetness, of admiration; it is one of the dying virtues of character.”
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