Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
Jack KerouacSo I rushed past the pretty girls, and the prettiest girls in the world live in Des Moines.
Jack KerouacBecause anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just "talents."
Jack KerouacSure baby, maรฑana. It was always maรฑana. For the next few weeks that was all I heardโโmaรฑana a lovely word and one that probably means heaven.
Jack KerouacItโs a sort of furtiveness โฆ Like we were a generation of furtive. You know, with an inner knowledge thereโs no use flaunting on that level, the level of the โpublicโ, a kind of beatness โ I mean, being right down to it, to ourselves, because we all really know where we are โ and a weariness with all the forms, all the conventions of the world โฆ Itโs something like that. So I guess you might say weโre a beat generation.
Jack Kerouac