Author: Jack Kerouac

Cites

• John Milton (1)
  • IN: The Haunted Life (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: But, O the heavy change, now thou art gone, Now thou art gone, and never must return!
    FROM: Lycidas, (1638), Poem, UK
• Proust (1)
  • IN: The Haunted Life (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: And in myself too many things have perished which, I imagined, would last forever, and new structures have arisen, given birth to new sorrows and new joys which in those days I could not have foreseen, just as now the old are difficult of comprehension.
    FROM: A la recherche du temps perdu, (1913), Novel, France
• Rimbaud (1)
  • IN: The Haunted Life (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: N'ous-je pas une fois une jeunesse amiable, heroique, fabuleuse, a ecrire sur des feuilles d'or, trop de chance! par quel crime, par quelle erreur, aije merite ma faiblesse actuelle?
    FROM: Une saison en enfer, (1873), NULL, France

Cited by

• Elissa Janine Hoole (1)
  • IN: Kiss the Morning Star (2012) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: The dog yawned and almost swallowed My Dharma
    FROM: My Dharma, (None), Poem, US
• David Means (1)
  • IN: Hystopia (2016) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: So you people don’t believe in God. So you’re all big smart know-it-all Marxists and Freudians, hey? Why don’t you come back in a million years and tell me all about it, angels?
    FROM: The Origins of the Beat Generation, (1959), Article, US
• Roma Tearne (1)
  • IN: Brixton Beach (2009) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: All of life is a foreign country.
    FROM: Letter to John Clellon Holmes (24 June 1949), (1949), letter, US
• Brando Skyhorse (1)
  • IN: The Madonnas of Echo Park (2010) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: They thought I was a Mexican, of course; and in a way I am.
    FROM: On the Road, (1957), Novel, US
• Feliz J. Palama (1)
  • IN: The Map of Time (2008) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: What is waiting for me in the direction I don't take?
    FROM: The Subterraneans, (1958), Novel, US
• Eric Kraft (1)
  • IN: Flying (2006) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: I'd often dreamed of going West to see the country, always vaguely planning and never taking off.
    FROM: On the Road, (1957), Novel, US
• Romesh Gunesekera (1)
  • IN: Noon Tide Toll (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: There was nowhere to go.. so keep on rolling under the stars.
    FROM: On the Road, (1957), Novel, US
• Ivan Doig (1)
  • IN: Last Bus to Wisdom (2015) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? -- it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-by. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.
    FROM: On the Road, (1957), Novel, US
• Tom Perrotta (1)
  • IN: Joe College (2000) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain until you see their specks dispersing?
    FROM: On the Road, (1957), Novel, US
• Gerald Murnane (1)
  • IN: Barley Patch (2011) Fiction, Australian
    EPIGRAPH: The Turf was so complicated it went on forever.
    FROM: Doctor Sax, (1959), Novel, US