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Discover my fav Jack Kerouac quotes for life and adventure to inspire our summery mood and adventurous spirit. Jack Kerouac (Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac) was born in Lowell, Massachusetts on March 12, 1922. At a very young age, he experienced the death of his brother Gerard. This event affected him deeply, and was also the occasion for the later publication of the novel “Visions of Gerard”. He loved reading and from an early age showed a tendency towards art. He was writing his magazines, which he even illustrated himself.
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Jack Kerouac’s life
Growing up, Jack Kerouac developed into a promising baseball and especially American football player. So, he received an athletic scholarship to study for free at Columbia University in New York. There, he first came into contact with several of the later members of the literary Beat Generation. Among them, were Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. Later, he dropped out and returned to his hometown of Lowell. There, he began working as the sports editor of the Lowell Sun newspaper. In 1942, he worked on merchant ships, making long voyages, and the following year, he volunteered for the US Navy.
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The return from England
When he returned from England, Kerouac became closely associated with Lucien Carr and Allen Ginsberg, then students at Columbia University. Also, with the writer William S. Burroughs as well as with Neal Cassady. At that time, in a conversation with the writer John Clellon Holmes, he described his generation as mentally tired of life and the world. And, their characteristic was a feeling of “beatness”, essentially introducing the term Beat Generation.
The two marriages
He married Eddie Parker in 1944, shortly after Lucien Carr was imprisoned for murder. for which Kerouac was even considered an accomplice. His marriage lasted only a few months. But, he divorced in 1945 and the same year coincided with the death of his father. Shortly after his death, Kerouac began writing his first novel, The Town and the City, which was published in 1950. In 1949 he made his first trip from New England to San Francisco, along with Neal Cassady and Cassady’s ex-wife. Over the next decade, Kerouac traveled nearly all over America and Mexico. He sometimes hitched a ride with Cassady and sometimes hitchhiked. The wandering would form the basis of his famous novel “On the Road”.
In 1950 he married his second wife, Joan Haverty. The following years were a particularly creative and productive period for Kerouac. He began to write furiously his well-known novels. Some of them were “On the Road”, “Visions of Cody”, “Dr. Sax “, “Maggie Cassidy”, “The Subterraneans” and others work.
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My favorite Jack Kerouac quotes
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”
Jack Kerouac
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
Jack Kerouac
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
Jack Kerouac
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“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”
Jack Kerouac
“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.”
Jack Kerouac
“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”
Jack Kerouac
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”
Jack Kerouac
“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”
Jack Kerouac
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“The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.”
Jack Kerouac
“Be in love with your life, every detail of it.”
Jack Kerouac
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“All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.”
Jack Kerouac
“But why think about that when all the golden lands 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
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
Jack Kerouac
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“The road must eventually lead to the whole world.”
Jack Kerouac
“Tonight while walking on the waterfront in the angelic streets I suddenly wanted to tell you how wonderful I think you are. Please don’t dislike me. What is the mystery of the world? Nobody knows they’re angels.”
Jack Kerouac
“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 […]”
Jack Kerouac
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