Satori in Paris & Pic Quotes

“My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet. As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind. I'm a wretch. But I love, love.”
― Jack Kerouac, Satori in Paris & Pic

“you are the equal of the idol who has given you your inspiration”
― Jack Kerouac, Satori in Paris & Pic

“Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Happiness consists in realizing it is all a great strange dream" (Jack Kerouac)”
― Jack Kerouac, Satori in Paris & Pic

“AIN’T NEVER NOBODY LOVED ME like I love myself, cept my mother and she’s dead.”
― Jack Kerouac, Satori in Paris & Pic

“...and I'm left there hanging on the bar stool pestering everybody with my poor loneliness which goes unnoticed in the crashing busy night, in the smash of the cash register, the racket of washing glasses. I want to tell them that we don't all want to become ants contributing to the social body, but individualists each one counting one by one, but no, try to tell that to the in-and-outers rushing in and out the humming world night as the world turns on one axis. The secret storm has become a public tempest.”
― Jack Kerouac, Satori in Paris & Pic