Jack Kerouac Quotes

Members of the generation that came of age after World War II-Korean War who join in a relaxation of social and sexual tensions, and who espouse anti-regimentation, mystic-disaffiliation, and material-simplicity values, supposedly as a result of cold-war disillusionment. Coined by Jack Kerouac.

Jack Kerouac

• World
• War
• Age

So I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.

Jack Kerouac

• World
• Live
• Pretty

If only I had the magic self of babyhood when I remembered what it was like before I was born, I wouldnt worry about death now knowing both to be the same empty dream.

Jack Kerouac

• Death
• Dream
• Worry

All is well, practice kindness, heaven is nigh.

Jack Kerouac

• Heaven
• Practice
• Kindness

I could give you a list a mile long of the homosexuals in the arts but there's no point in making a big tzimis about a relatively harmless and cool state of affairs - Each man to his own tastes.

Jack Kerouac

• Long
• Cool

I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.

Jack Kerouac

• Guilty

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

Jack Kerouac

• Great
• Dream

(...) who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance?

Jack Kerouac

• Ignorance