9 Beautiful Quotes From Jack Kerouac's Lost Novel: The Sea Is My Brother

9 quotes

The book was uncovered 70 years after it was penned by a young Kerouac, who hid it away on purpose. He considered it to be "a crock as literature."

“Dreams were so irrational, so gray with a nameless terror — and yet, too, so haunting and beautiful.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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“[He] seemed at home and content now they were sailing, as though leaving the port meant the cessation of all his worries, and heading out to sea a new era of peace and amenity.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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“They laughed raucously and proceeded on down the street. From then on, Wesley was aware of only three things: that he drank two more enormous draughts from the bottle; that he was in New York at night, because they were walking in a steep canyon between tall corniced buildings that leaned crazily, a…”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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“What wrong was there in treating his own life, within the bounds of moral conscience, as he chose and as he freely wished?”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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“And so I measure things in the light of their imperfection , or wrong ; on that basis , I can say what is not good, but I refuse to dawdle about what is supposed good.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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“I love life’s casual beauty - I fear its awful strength.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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“I still doubt if they know what’s good: they only know what’s wrong, like me. Their dreams are beautiful, but insufficient, improbable, and most of all short of the mark.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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“Art was the revolt of the free.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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“All life is but a skull-bone and A rack of ribs through which we keep passing food & fuel - just so’s we can burn so furious beautiful.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

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