Jack Kerouac Quotes


For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.


Citations

Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. Viking Press, 1957, p. 129.

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Most scientists are of the opinion that although we cannot control the weather we can refrain from those activities that would induce more extreme climate changes. It is the extreme’s that cause the major problems. The other weather problems cause difficulties but they are manageable.


Jack Kerouac
Jack Kerouac
  • Born: March 12, 1922
  • Died: October 21, 1969
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist

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.