I'm stuck struggling in the cold water, and all I can do is grieve, grieve, in the hoar necessitous horror of the morning, bitterly I hate myself, bitterly it's too late yet while I feel better I still feel ephemeral and unreal and unable to straighten my thoughts or even really grieve, in fact I feel too stupid to be really bitter, in short I don't know what I'm doing and I'm being told what to do. β¨ Jack Kerouac (2012). Desolation Angels, p.18, Penguin UK
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- When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy! β¨ Jack Kerouac (2007). On the Road: The Original Scroll: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), p.231, Penguin
- 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-by. But we lean forwa β¦ βΆ
- In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk β¦ βΆ
- Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go. β¨ Jack Kerouac (1957). On the Road, Viking Press
- And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves. β¨ Jack Kerouac (2016). Old Angel Midnight, p.8, City Lights Publishers
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