All I had to do was lean back and relax my soul and roll on. —  Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll (via raphaellamartelino)

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Neal Cassady 

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My whole wretched life swam before my weary eyes, and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad. —  Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll  (via honeyforthehomeless)

I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn’t remember especially because the transitions from life to death and back to life 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 Kerouac, On the Road

And for just a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was the complete step across chronological time into timeless shadows, and wonderment in the bleakness of the mortal realm, and the sensation of death kicking at my heels to move on, with a phantom dogging its own heels, and myself hurrying to a plank where all the angels dove off and flew into the holy void of uncreated emptiness, the potent and inconceivable radiancies shining in bright Mind Essence, innumerable lotuslands falling open in the magic mothswarm of heaven… —  Jack Kerouac, On the Road

That’s not writing; that’s typing. —  Trumon Capote on Jack Kerouac’s On the Road

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On the Road

Dean and Sal are the portrait of the Beat Generation. Their search for “It” results in a fast paced, energetic roller coaster ride with highs and lows throughout the U.S.

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Elisabeth Moss as Galatea Dunkel (Helen Hinkle) in On The Road (2012)

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Ruscha pays tribute to Keouac’s seminal work.