Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac

12-Mar-1922


United States


Novelist

Jack Kerouac's writing career began in the 1940s, but it did not meet commercial success until 1957, when his book On the Road was published. The book became an American classic describing the Beat Generation. Kerouac died on October 21, 1969, at the age of 47.

QUOTES BY Jack Kerouac


Some people are so poor, all they have is money.

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

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

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry."

"There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars."

"I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion."

"The only truth is music."

"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road."

"My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."

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