Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969)
“I am just water and earth transformed and combined, I’m just perception under restraint, I have no individuality in the matter, my True Mind of Intuition of the Universe is my True Mind…”
- Jack Kerouac -
“…while the ‘Lost Generation,’ the rebellious avant-garde of the 1920s often taken as a precursor to the Beats, was decisively repudiated by most of its members within a decade of its inception, the Beat movement in its various permutations continues even today, fifty years later, sustaining its veterans and attracting new adherents among those equally distrustful of official pieties and postmodern evasions, those committed to regenerative expressiveness that respects no boundaries or prohibitions.”
- Ann Douglas -
“That was the challenge of On the Road. And that was its promise. To head off into the Wild West and find that one last freedom. The freedom of the mind.
The west is the best.
Get here, we’ll do the rest.
I resolved to head west as soon as I could. Jim Morrison did the same. I came from frozen Chicago, he came from swampy Florida; but we both came for the same reason – freedom! I suppose if Jack Kerouac had never written On the Road, The Doors would never have existed.”
- Ray Manzarek -
