Jack Kerouac Quotes
And before me was the great raw bulge and bulk of my American continent; somewhat far across, gloomy, crazy New York was throwing up its cloud of dust and brown steam. There is something brown and holy about the East; and California is white like washlines and emptyheaded - at least that's what I thought then.
Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. Viking Press, 1957, p. 79.
The capital was then New York. Not unlike today word spread quickly, far and wide, of events and speeches of the politicians. Adams complained that he was being quoted out of context and accused of changing his ideology and becoming a monarchist. His desire for a strong executive together with his proposals to give the executive formal titles of respect, led many to that conclusion. He was opposed to any hereditary monarchy and thus thought the criticism unfair. He was turned out of office after one term. Jefferson replaced him.
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac, often known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist of French Canadian ancestry, who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
