Jack Kerouac - America Quotes

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This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.

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Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?

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Here I was at the end of America...no more land...and nowhere was nowhere to go but back

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My karma was to be born in America where nobody has any fun or believes in anything, especially freedom.

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It was my dream that screwed up, the stupid hearthside idea that it would be wonderful to follow one great red line across America instead of trying various roads and routes.

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We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess—across the night...

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I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future.

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They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that I was slowly joining.

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I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.

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Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.

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Holy flowers floating in the air, were all these tired faces in the dawn of Jazz America.

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