Jack (John) Kerouac Quotes

1922 - 1969

US novelist. His fast-moving, stream of consciousness novel On The  Road  (1957)  became  the  quintessential  text  of  the  Beat Generation.

All of life is a foreign country.

1949  Letter, 24  Jun.

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I have nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.

Jack (John) Kerouac
— 1957  On The Road, pt.2, ch.3.

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John Clellon Holmes?and I were sitting around trying to think up the meaning of the Lost Generation and the subsequent Existentialism and I said,'You know, this is really a beat generation'and he leapt up and said,'That's it, that's right!'

Jack (John) Kerouac
— 1959  Interview in Playboy,  Jun.

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Desolation Angels.

Jack (John) Kerouac
— 1965   Title of novel.

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The road is life.

Jack (John) Kerouac
— 1957  OnThe Road, pt.3, ch.5.

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