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Jack Kerouac
1922 – 1969 • American • Novelist
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Showing 39 quotesNotoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.— Jack Kerouac
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.— Jack Kerouac
I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.— Jack Kerouac
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.— Jack Kerouac
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.— Jack Kerouac
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The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.— Jack Kerouac
All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.— Jack Kerouac
I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.— Jack Kerouac
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.— Jack Kerouac