Kerouac Love

Current Quotations :

"Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end. "

I have often felt oblivious, blissfully ignorant, selective with what reality I choose to accept. So many "facts of life" and boring details, I often overlook. Usually, because I choose not to deal with them, and because the mundane awful details of life just drag me down. All I want is what pushes me to become better

“What is the 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.”

Perspective. I will not claim to be the only person on the world who has dealt with leaving people behind. Most of my childhood was new houses, schools, churches, friends. Goodbye was always present, usually waiting to rear it's ugly head when I was feeling most comfortable with the lastest friendships I had developed. There is not rhyme or reason to having to move on. Only the feeling of hoping that "what comes is better than what came before".

“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 and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!”

Classic, beautiful, Kerouac. I have been in love with this quote since 7th grade when I first started really exploring who Jack was. It is the Hallmark of his writing, powerful, simple, and true.

"I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted."

YES.

"I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down." -- Jack Kerouac

"If you're working with words, it's got to be poetry. I grew up with [the books of Jack] Kerouac. If he hadn't wrote On The Road, the Doors would have never existed. Morrison read On The Road down in Florida, and I read it in Chicago. That sense of freedom, spirituality, and intellectuality in On The Road — that's what I wanted in my own work." -- Ray Manzarek, keyboard player, The Doors

"I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's." -- Bob Dylan

"Once when Kerouac was high on psychedelics with Timothy Leary, he looked out the window and said, 'Walking on water wasn't built in a day.' Our goal was to save the planet and alter human consciousness. That will take a long time, if it happens at all." -- Allen Ginsberg