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Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach....
— Jack Kerouac
And then we'll all go off to sweet life, 'cause now is the time and we all know time!
— Jack Kerouac
And he had a nice home in Ohio with wife, daughter, Christmas tree, two cars, garage, lawn, lawnmower, but he couldn't enjoy any of it because he really wasn't free. It was sadly true.
— Jack Kerouac
The little flowers grew everywhere around the rocks, and no one had asked them to grow, or me to grow.
— Jack Kerouac
I want to be like him. He's never hung-up, he goes every direction, he lets it all out, he knows time, he has nothing to do but rock back and forth. Man, he's the end! You see, if you go like him all the time you'll finally get it.
— Jack Kerouac
Because in the end, you won't remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain." Jack Kerouac
— Jack Kerouac
Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.
— Jack Kerouac
I wanta swim in rivers and drink goatmilk and talk with priests and just read Chinese books and amble around the valleys talking to farmers and their children.
— Jack Kerouac
At least I had frost on my nose, boots on my feet, and protest in my mouth.
— Jack Kerouac
I've got my full rucksack pack and it's spring, I'm going to go Southwest to the dry land, to the long lone land of Texas and Chihuahua and the gay streets of Mexico night, music coming out of doors, girls, wine, weed, wild hats, viva! What does it matter? Like the ants that have nothing to do but dig all day, I have nothing to do but what I want and be kind and remain nevertheless uninfluenced by imaginary judgments and pray for the light.
— Jack Kerouac
I'd rather die than be famous, I want to go live in the desert With long wild hair, eating At my campfire, full of sand
— Jack Kerouac
Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running - that's the way to live.
— Jack Kerouac