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“Will you love me in December as you do in May?”

—Jack Kerouac

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”

—Jack Kerouac, the Dharma Bums

“My witness is the empty sky.”

—Jack Kerouac

“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.”

—Jack Kerouac - On the Road

“Non avevo niente da offrire a nessuno. Tranne la mia confusione. ”

—Jack Kerouac

“She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches’ brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.”

—Jack Kerouac, Maggie Cassidy

“I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds. ”

—Jack Kerouac

“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.”

—Jack Kerouac

“Be in love with your life. Be crazy dumb-saint of the mind. Believe in the holy contour of life. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition, don't think of words when you stop but to see the picture better and struggle to sketch the flow which already exists intact in mind. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea. Accept loss forever. Be wild undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better.”

—Jack Kerouac, Belief & Technique For Modern Prose
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