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The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved...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 (1922 - 1969), "On the Road"
The fact was I had the vision... I think everyone has... what we lack is the method.: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969)
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 (1922 - 1969)
Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuddering through nightmare life.: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969), On the Road
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.: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969), On the Road
Isn't it true that you start your life a sweet child believing in everything under your father's roof? Then comes the day of the Laodiceans, when you know you are wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked, and with the visage of a gruesome grieving ghost you go shuttering through nightmare life.: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969), On the Road, stated by narator and protagonist Sal Paradise
Never speaks a word, can't be wrong.: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969)
Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969)
I suddenly discovered the delight of rebellion.: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969)
You, man must write exactly as everything rushes into your head and AT ONCE. The pain of writing is just that...: Jack Kerouac (1922 - 1969), letter to Neal Cassidy, 6 October, 1950

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