Jack Kerouac Quotes


The silence is so intense that you can hear your own blood roar in your ears but louder than that by far is the mysterious roar which I alwas identify with the roaring of the diamond wisdom, the mysterious roar of silence itself, which is a great Shhhh reminding you of something you've seemed to have forgotten in the stress of your days since birth.


Citations

Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. Viking Press, 1958.

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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.