58 Quotes About Jack-kerouac

I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do:"Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar."Underworld" by Don DeLillo. He's a snob."On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. He's a spoiled passport-carrying fuck stunted in eighth grade."Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. Enough already."The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. He's got Mayflowers in his blood.

Pretty soon...do you realize there'll be so many additional childhoods and pasts with everybody writing about them everybody'll give up reading in despair-There'll be an Explosion of childhoods and pasts, they'll have to have a giant Brain print them out microscopically on film to be stored in a warehouse on Mars to give Heaven Seventy Kotis to catch up on all that reading- Seventy Million Million Kotis! - Whoopee! - Everything is free!

He mentioned that he didn't like Jack Kerouac either, but this wasn't quite true. "I don't like people who like Jack Kerouac," he clarified.

Everything Jack says is to be taken with considerable reserve.

I believe in order, tenderness, and piety.

I want to see you. I feel more and more at with you now actually than ever before, I feel you more, actually more clarity, more confidence, more trust.

When you write letters to me, try not to be sophomoric and moribund about your criticisms of Jean et son weltanschauung [and his worldview.] A little more finesse, please, or if possible, a dash of humor.

I realized Jack [Kerouac] was deeply committed to writing. Kesey was just as deeply committed to living and experiencing the lives of others; for him writing was just a part of living.

Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.