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On the Road

In its time Jack Kerouac's masterpiece was the bible of the Beat Generation, the essential prose accompaniment to Allen Ginsberg's Howl. While it stunned the public and literary establishment when it was published in 1957, it is now recognized as

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“Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

“Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...”

— Jack Kerouac

Tagged: travel, Stars, Leaving

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Future, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences

“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, amazon.com

Tagged: Perfect Words

“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Sex, Dating, Relationships

“Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Desire, Paralysis, Decision-Making, Taking Risks, Wanting Someone You Can't Have

“It was like the imminent arrival of Gargantuan, preparations had to be made to widen the gutters of Denver and foreshorten certain laws to fit his suffering bulk and bursting ecstasies.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Beat, Writing, Denver, Writers, Partying