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Letter "J" » Jack Kerouac Quotes
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«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.»
«What?s in store for me in the direction I don?t take?»
«No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength.»
Author: Jack Kerouac
(Novelist, Poet)
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bored, depending, experiencing, solely, thereby, the Wilderness, wilderness
«Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.»
«??-no girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in hell and the hell the selfsame streets I?d roamed in watching, watching for someone just like her and never dreaming the darkness and the mystery and eventuality of our meeting in eternity,?»
«Write in recollection and amazement for yourself»
«The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great that I thought I was in a dream.»
«...colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middleclass non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of well-to-do houses with lawns and television sets is each living room with everybody looking at the same thing and thinking the same thing at the same time while the Japhies of the world go prowling in the wilderness...»
Author: Jack Kerouac
(Novelist, Poet)
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campus, campuses, colleges, groom, groomed, grooming, grooms, houses, identity, lawns, living room, outskirts, prowl, prowling, prowls, rooming house, rows, schools, sets, television set, the Wilderness, well-to-do, wilderness
«Why did I allow myself to be bored ever in the past and to compensate for it got high or drunk or rages or all the tricks people have because they want anything but serene understanding of just what there is, which is after all so much.»
«All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.»
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