Suppose we suddenly wake up and see that what we thought to be this and that, ain't this and that at all?
Jack KerouacI came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of โthinkingโ and โenjoyingโ what they call โlivingโ, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
Jack KerouacI realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.
Jack KerouacI ate apple pie and ice creamโit was getting better as I got deeper into Iowa, the pie bigger, the ice cream richer. There were the most beautiful bevies of girls everywhere I looked in Des Moines that afternoonโthey were coming home from high schoolโbut I had no time for thoughts like thatโฆSo I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
Jack Kerouac