Quote Of The Day / Jack Kerouac

"Something, someone, some spirit was pursuing all of us across the desert of life and was bound to catch us before we reached heaven. Naturally, now that I look back on it, this is only death: death will overtake us before heaven.

The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death."

Jack Kerouac

One of the greatest prose writers of all time. Kerouac gave us a unique insight into the beat generation, daily life in the 50's and the mind of babbling junkies and an alcohol fuelled existence.

His novel and stories flow and give you the sensation of being present in his time with his inhibitions, a night reading Kerouac can give you a mental hangover.

I am not sure I would want to spend any personal time with this man, although dead a long time ago, I feel he would've of been difficult to get in with.

Cotton.