JACK KEROUAC - QUOTES COLLECTIONBIOGRAPHY, ACHIEVEMENTS AND LIFE LESSONS ABOUT JACK KEROUACJack Kerouac, the iconic figure of the Beat Generation, was born on March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts, as Jean-Louis Lebris de Kerouac. The son of French-Canadian immigrants, Leo-Alcide Keroack and Gabrielle-Ange Levesque, young Jack grew up in a working-class environment that would later shape his unique perspective on life. QUOTES SAMPLES: "e;I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove."e; "e;Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."e; "e;All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."e; "e;My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them."e; "e;All of life is a foreign country."e; "e;My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always."e;