American - Novelist | March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969
My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
Jack Kerouac
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My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
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All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.
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It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.
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I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.
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Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.
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I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody'. I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A. It's four chapters.
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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.
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It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.
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