Persons [ ] All of Life is a Foreign Country | Jack Kerouac, 1922-69
Jack Kerouac, On Bleecker Street, New York, Oct. 15, 1958
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”
“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.”
“The only truth is music.”
“All of life is a foreign country.”
“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”
“Don’t use the phone. People are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.”
“Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream”
“Cliches are truisms and all truisms are true”
“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
“My witness is the empty sky.”
“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate’s so easy compared.”
“I’m going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”
“If you own a rug you own too much.”
“Houses are full of things that gather dust”
“A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth”
“They build their own Hells.”
“I don’t know, I don’t care, and it doesn’t make any difference.”
“It all ends in tears anyway.”
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.”
“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”
“Pain or love or danger makes you real again.”
“There are worse things than being mad.”
“If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.”
“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.”
“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”
“Be in love with your life, every detail of it.”
“The beauty of things must be that they end.”
Jack Kerouac, 1922-69
Also:
The Golden Eternity | A letter from Jack Kerouac, 1957
Belief & Technique for Modern Prose | Jack Kerouac, 1922-69
Reading List | Jack Kerouac, 18 y. o. 1940
