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THROUGH THE AMERICAN WEST

Words by Jack Kerouac

“You guys are going somewhere or just going?”
― Jack Kerouac

“It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.”
― Jack Kerouac

“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
― Jack Kerouac

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

“They build their own Hells.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I felt free and therefore I was free.”
― Jack Kerouac

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

“Houses are full of things that gather dust.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.”
― Jack Kerouac

“LA is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities; NY gets god-awful cold in the winter but there's a feeling of wacky comradeship somewhere in some streets. LA is a jungle.”
― Jack Kerouac

“[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
― Jack Kerouac

“This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.”
― Jack Kerouac

“As we crossed the Colorado-Utah border I saw God in the sky in the form of huge gold sunburning clouds above the desert that seemed to point a finger at me and say, "Pass here and go on, you're on the road to heaven.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”
― Jack Kerouac

“The beauty of things must be that they end.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.”
― Jack Kerouac

“I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.”
― Jack Kerouac

“But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?”
― Jack Kerouac

“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

“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

“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.”
― Jack Kerouac

“My witness is the empty sky.”

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