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The page is long, blank, and full of truth. When I am through with it, it shall probably be long, full, and empty with words.

Writing, Truth, Creation, Words, Paradox

The page is long blank and full of truth When

The page is long blank and full of truth When

The page is long blank and full of truth When

Jack Kerouac’s Quotes On Topics

More Jack Kerouac Quotes

“This is the way I like it, when you get going there's just no need to talk, as if we were animals and just communicated by silent telepathy.”

Silence, Communication, Connection, Understanding, Wordless Bond

“Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the world and would raise men’s souls to joy.”

Music, Inspiration, Harmony, Joy, Expression

“We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell.”

Freedom, Exhilaration, America, Experience, Expression

“The old tree brooded over me silently, a living thing. I heard a mouse snoring in the garden weeds. The rooftops of Berkeley looked like pitiful living meat sheltering grieving phantoms from the enternality of the heavens which they feared to face. By the time I went to bed I wasn't taken in by no Princess or no desire for no Princess and nobody's disapproval and I felt glad and slept well.”

Nature, Perception, Disillusionment, Freedom, Contentment

“As for his hobby, drawing, he was better at that than most artists alive today and I always knew he was really a great young artist pretending to be withdrawn so people would leave him alone, also so people wouldn't ask him to get a job.”

Art, Talent, Society, Perception, Introversion

“A tremendous thing happened when Dean met Carlo Marx. Two keen minds that they are, they took to each other at the drop of a hat. Two piercing eyes glanced into two piercing eyes – the holy con-man with the shining mind, and the sorrowful poetic con-man with the dark mind that is Carlo Marx.”

Friendship, Connection, Intellect, Character, Dynamic

“I don't know when we'll meet again or what'll happen in the future, but Desolation, Desolation, I owe so much to Desolation, thank you forever for guiding me to the place where I learned all. Now comes the sadness of coming back to cities and I've grown two months older and there's all that humanity of bars and burlesque shows and gritty love, all upsidedown in the void God bless them, but Japhy you and me forever we know, O ever youthful, O ever weeping.”

Gratitude, Desolation, Learning, Urban Life, Friendship

“Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that cramp they didn't really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, at least new fancy cars, certain hair oils and deodorants and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned in a system of work, produce, consume, work, produce, consume...”

Consumerism, Freedom, Lifestyle, Critique, Society

“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.”

Boredom, Understanding, Serenity, Self-reflection, Life Appreciation

“Don't be a sucker all your life, dummy up, ya dope.”

Advice, Self-improvement, Street Wisdom, Bluntness, Life Lessons

“I felt like telling Japhy everything I thought but I knew it didn't matter and moreover he knew it anyway and silence is the golden mountain.”

Communication, Silence, Understanding, Wisdom, Friendship

“LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.”

Cities, Loneliness, Urban Life, Cultural Comparison, Social Atmosphere

“If you own a rug you own too much.”

Minimalism, Possessions, Simplicity, Materialism, Lifestyle Philosophy

“We agreed to love each other madly.”

Love, Passion, Agreement, Intensity, Relationship

“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.”

Love, Pride, World Appreciation, Difficulty, Emotional Choice

“Begin not from preconceived idea of what to say about image but from jewel center of interest in subject of image at moment of writing, and write outwards swimming in sea of language to peripheral release and exhaustion.”

Writing, Creativity, Spontaneity, Language Exploration, Artistic Process

“That last thing is what you can't get. Nobody can get to that last thing. We keep on living in hopes of catching it once and for all.”

Unattainable, Hope, Pursuit, Life’s Meaning, Human Desire

“Everything belongs to me because I am poor.”

Poverty, Ownership, Perspective, Paradox, Spiritual Wealth

“As for my mother, there's no other like her in the world, really. Did she bear me just to have a little child to bless her heart? She got her wish.”

Motherhood, Uniqueness, Love, Family, Fulfillment

“Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain...”

Adventure, Nature, Self-discovery, Challenge, Spiritual Journey