Jack Kerouac - Quotes Collection

JACK KEROUAC - QUOTES COLLECTION

BIOGRAPHY, ACHIEVEMENTS AND LIFE LESSONS

ABOUT JACK KEROUAC

Jack Kerouac, the iconic figure of the Beat Generation, was born on March 12, 1922, in Lowell, Massachusetts, as Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac. The son of French-Canadian immigrants, Leo-Alcide Kéroack and Gabrielle-Ange Lévesque, young Jack grew up in a working-class environment that would later shape his unique perspective on life.

QUOTES SAMPLES:

"I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove."

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."

"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."

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

"All of life is a foreign country."

"My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always."