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After you claim a section you’ll have 24 hours to send in a draft. My hand won't shake. - But can it be by 'last chance' she doesn't mean mere marriage but some profoundly sad realization of something in me she really needs to go on living, at least that impression coming across anyway on the force of all the gloom we've shared -”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from Big Sur

“O hell, I'm sick of life - If I had any guts I'd drown myself in that tiresome water but that wouldn't be getting it over at all, I can just see the big transformations and plans jellying down there to curse us up in some other wretched suffering form eternities of it - I guess that's what the kid feels - She looks so sad down there wandering Ophelialike in bare feet among thunders.”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from Big Sur

“It's hard to explain and best thing to do is not be false.”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from Big Sur

“We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period.”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from Big Sur

“and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too.
A long way to go.”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from Big Sur

“An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else...”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from Big Sur

“Our radio plays rhythm and blues as we pass the joint back and forth in jutjawed silence both looking ahead with big private thoughts now so vast we can't communicate them anymore and if we tried it would take a million years and a billion books ― Too late, too late, the history of everything we've seen together and separately has become a library in itself ― The shelves pile higher ― They're full of misty documents or documents of the Mist - The mind has convoluted in every tuckaway every whichaway tuckered hole till there's no more the expressing of our latest thoughts let alone the old.”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from Big Sur

“And it's finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for "cities" at last, you dream of long gray journeys to cities where soft evenings'll unfold like Paris but never seeing how sickening it will be because of the primordial innocence of health and stillnes in the wilds- So I tell myself "Be Wise.”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from Big Sur

“And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words ― We will pass just as quietly through life (passing through, passing through) as the 10th century people of this valley only with a little more noise and a few bridges and dams and bombs that wont even last a million years ― The world being just what it is, moving and passing through, actually alright in the long view and nothing to complain about.”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from Big Sur

“But there's no joy at all, people say "Oh well he's drunk and happy let him sleep it off"--The poor drunkard is *crying*--He's crying for his mother and father and great brother and great friend, he's crying for help.

My aim won't falter. He looks back on his time spent with her so far and still only sees death. He believes that with enough ambition, this pool player will wander wherever he wants and find exactly what he's looking for.

"But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek toward the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do' -- And a bird who was on a crooked branch is suddenly gone without my even hearing him."

Jack, 7.5

Jack is paralyzed by his fear of death.

For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden should contaminate all humanity; for that reason it is not unjust that the crucifixion of a single Jew should be sufficient to save it.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, quote from Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings

“Every woman has a dream lover and anightmare lover.

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These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. Something about seeing his friend dying before his eyes forces Jack to again face his helpless mortality. That is the purest expression of religion to Jack.

"I'm bursting to explain everything to him, not even Big Sur but the past several years, but there's no chance with everybody yakking -- And in fact I can see in Cody's eyes that he can see in my own eyes the regret we both feel that recently we haven't had chances to talk whatever, like we used to do driving across America and back in the old road days, too many people now want to talk to us and tell us their stories, we've been hemmed in and surrounded and outnumbered -- The circle's closed in on the old heroes of the night."

Jack, 13.2

While he was alone in Big Sur, Jack still feels alone even with Cody.

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― David Benioff, quote from City of Thieves

“Mercy: Then why didn't Marsilia just come herself?

Andre: Marsilia is a lady. The nightmare lover, he just lies on top of her, crushing her with his belly, jabbing his little tool in and out till he's finished.

well, there's more of that up later.”
― Jack Kerouac, quote from Big Sur

“And I realize the unbearable anguish of insanity: how uninformed people can be thinking insane people are "happy," O God, in fact it was Irwin Garden once warned me not to think the madhouses are full of "happy nuts." (p. Perpetually preoccupied with death, Jack is really upset after this trip.

My face will be the last thing you‟ll see before you die.”

I jammed the knife into the table and walked out.”
― Ilona Andrews, quote from Magic Bleeds

“I was a relationship retard. Have your vote. Looking back, his memories of time spent with Billie seems meaningless but still somehow pleasant. In his youth, maybe he was like that impetuous young man, but now Jack feels old and mortal.

Women do not belong in combat.

Mercy: So you brought me instead?”
― Patricia Briggs, quote from Blood Bound

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