A Quote by Anne Waldman
As a woman I have felt encouraged and fed by and nurtured by the work of [Jack] Kerouac and others.
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When I grew up in the early '90s, the new World Wide Web felt like a gimmick, and I had no idea of the changes in store. In the summers, I'd backpack through Europe, follow the Grateful Dead. I had a car and a tent and traveled around the Great Lakes and out West. Jack Kerouac was my guiding light, his 'On the Road' a sacred text.
My golden dream was to move to New York and live in the Village and become that cool rebel beatnik Jack Kerouac.
All work and no play makes jack. With enough jack, Jack needn't be a dull boy.
Jack Kerouac, like a sick refrigerator, worked too hard at keeping cool and died on his mama's lap from alcohol and infantilism.
Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.
Human growth is not like rhubarb. It can be nurtured and encouraged but it cannot be forced.
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I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys.
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Growing up in San Antonio, I was the dork at the Friday night football games with my head buried in a book - Jack Kerouac or Oscar Wilde, years before I really understood them.
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