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Jack Kerouac [1922-1969] American

Rank: 11
Poet (with poems)

Beat, Existentialism, Neoromanticism, New American Poetry

Jack Kerouac was an American novelist and poet.
He is considered a literary iconoclast and, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, a pioneer of the Beat Generation. Kerouac is recognized for his method of spontaneous prose.

Great, Best, Car, Communication, Death, Dreams, Failure, Hope, Life, Men, Respect

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All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.	Best, Men	101
Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.	Great	102
I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.		103
All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.	Dreams	104
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.		105
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.		106
I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.	Death, Great, Hope	107
Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.	Respect	108
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... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles.		109
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?	Car	110
You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.		111
All of life is a foreign country.		112
Accept loss forever.		113
Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars.	Life	114
Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.		115
My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.	Failure	116
A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.		117
My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.		118
If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.		119
My witness is the empty sky.		120
I really hate to write.		121
It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.		122
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.		123
I'm not a beatnik. I'm a Catholic.		124
Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.		125
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.	Communication	126
I don't really go out at all.		201
I know who the great poets are.		202
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.		203
It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.		204
I'm really Wallace Beery in 'The Champ.'		205
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.		206
My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.		207
The Catholic Church is a weird church. Much mysticism is sown broadspread from its ritual mysteries till it extends into the very lives of its constituents and parishoners.		208
I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.		209
Notoriety and public confession in the literary form is a frazzler of the heart you were born with, believe me.		210
I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.		211
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.		212
As you get older, you get more... genealogical.		213

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