Visions of Gerard Quotes

“Artist or no-artist, I can't pass up a piece of fried chicken when I see one.”
― Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard

“here we are, by the side of the river - once upon a time we had a notion we were Romeo's.”
― Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard

“There are also silent drinkers with big chapped red fists around silent glasses, huddled over, figuring out ways to get their wives outa their thoughts and you can see their mouths lengthen down and draw sorrow almost as you look.”
― Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard

“Papier-mache canals flowed in downtown Lowell, men smoking cigars stand by the rail spitting in the waters that reflect the drizzle hopelessness of 1926.”
― Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard

“And at that very moment ladies in black garments, scores of them, are scattered throughout St. Louis de France church, kneeling or sitting or some standing at the various special shrines, their lips muttering prayers for similar requests for similar troubles in their own poor lives and if indeed the Lord seeth all and saw all that is going on and all the beseechment in His name in dark earth-churches throughout the kingdom of consciousness, it would be with pain He'd attend and bend His thoughts to it.”
― Jack Kerouac, Visions of Gerard