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The Dharma Bums

Jack London's novels and ruggedly individual life seemed to embody American hopes, frustrations, and romantic longings in the turbulent first years of the twentieth century, years infused with the wonder and excitement of great technological and h

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“Pain or love or danger makes you real again...”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Feelings, Reality, feeling alive, emotions, Living

“It all ends in tears anyway.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: End, Tears, Sadness, careless, Risk

“It all ends in tears anyway.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Ending, Tears, Hopelessness

“I felt free and therefore I was free.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Freedom

“Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Mind, Existence, Glorious

“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Simplicity, Silence, Nirvana

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there, with the Ma-Wink fallopian virgin warm stars reflecting on the…”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Happiness, Simplicity, Alone, Free, Feeling

“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past child…”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Feeling, Memories, Familiartiy

“Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, 'God, I love you' and looked to the sky and really meant it. 'I have fallen in love with you, God. Take care of us all, one way or the other.' To the children and the innocent it's all the same.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: God, Nature, Love

“It all ends in tears anyway.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Tears, End, Endings

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Words, Simple

“What a horror it would have been if the world was real.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Kerouac, Misfits

“For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Kerouac, Misfits

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running—that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach by the sigh of the sea out there.”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: Kerouac, Misfits

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that god damn mountain.”

— Jack Kerouac, goodreads.com

Tagged: travel, Wanderlust, Adventure, Lust For Life, Writers

“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past child…”

— Jack Kerouac, amazon.com

Tagged: How To Think, Nature