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JACK KEROUAC – Author Quote Page<\/div>\n

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\u201cA<\/strong>ll of life is a foreign country.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Jack Kerouac<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Letter to John Clellon Holmes & his family (24 June 1949) reprinted in The Beat Diary<\/em>, eds. Arthur & Kit Knight, Vol. 5, California, PA: Arthur & Kit Knight, 1977, p. 129<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Punctuation is original to source text. Letter begins on page 128.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cConsider this for irrationality which reached a point of mystery: — One night I went to an amusement park with a widow and her 14-year-old-boy. This mad widow likes me, for some reason. Coming back from the park with the boy (she had left), hitch-hiking in the black Colorado night, a man gave us a ride in his little truck. He had his whole family with him. The boy and I sat in the back with one of the man\u2019s little boys. The little boy was wrapped in a blanket, although it was not cold. Just then a car came out of the dark, with no headlights, and came straight for us; just missed, swerving, and disappearing in the dark, no lights. No sound, nothing! The two boys with me giggled. They thought it was funny. At that moment I looked at them and they were both wrapped in the blanket, as in a shroud, and I yelled: \u201cWhat the hell is this, a foreign country?\u201d Turns out, all of life is a foreign country.<\/span> This incident I have just described is one of the great mysteries of my life Nobody can help me to figure it out. I just couldn\u2019t understand what was going on. Can you? The dark car, the soundlessness, the incomprehensible family in the truck, the night, the blanket-shroud\u2026just like I say: America is an Egyptian land.\u201d (p. 129)<\/p>\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Editor\u2019s copy – The Beat Diary<\/em> (1977) Online Computer Library Center No. 632698790<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cGenius gives birth, talent delivers.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Jack Kerouac<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

\u201cAre Writers Made or Born? (January 1962) Writer\u2019s Digest<\/em>, Vol. XLII; reprint in The Portable Jack Kerouac<\/em>, ed. Ann Charters, Penguin Books, 1995, p. 490<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e625381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Essay on writing; italicized words original to text]:<\/p>\n

\u201cGenius gives birth, talent delivers<\/span>. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night sky can never be seen again. No frog can jump in a pond like Basho\u2019s frog. Born<\/em> writers of the future are amazed already at what they\u2019re seeing now, what we\u2019ll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made<\/em> writers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: Images of the original Kerouac\u00a0Writer\u2019s Digest<\/em>\u00a0print edition pages can be viewed online via Zachary Petit, \u201cAre Writers Born or Made? – Jack Kerouac Quotes\u201d (16 March 2012) Writer\u2019s Digest<\/em>, www.writersdigest.com<\/a>.\u00a0 Please see our “Source Link” tab for the specific link to the Writer’s Digest<\/em> article.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source <\/em><\/strong>[Featured source]<\/span>: Library – The Portable Jack Kerouac<\/em> (1995 Penguin Books ed.) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-14-017819-8<\/p>\n

Source link\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Writer\u2019s Digest<\/em>, original page images]<\/span>: \u201cAre Writers Born or Made? – Jack Kerouac Quotes\u201d (16 March 2012) online via Writer\u2019s Digest: http:\/\/www.writersdigest.com\/editor-blogs\/there-are-no-rules\/are-writers-born-or-made-jack-kerouac-quotes<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cL<\/strong>ive, travel, adventure, bless, and don\u2019t be sorry.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Jack Kerouac<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Desolation Angels<\/em> (1965) New York: Open Road Integrated Media, March 22, 2016 eBook edition, p. 10; online via Scribd [subscription service] www.scribd.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: \u201c\u2026Hope is a word like a snow-drift – This is the Great Knowing, this is the Awakening, this is Voidness \u2013 So shut up, live, travel, adventure, bless and don\u2019t be sorry<\/span> \u2013 Prunes, prune, eat your prunes \u2013 And you have been forever, and will be forever, and all the worrisome smashings of your foot on innocent cupboard doors it was only the Void pretending to be a man pretending not to know the Void \u2013 I come back into the house a new man.\u201d (p. 10)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Desolation Angels<\/em> (1965|March 2016 Open Road Integrated Media ed.) online via Scribd [subscription service]: https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/read\/297875477\/Desolation-Angels-A-Novel#t_search-menu_914420<\/a><\/p>\n

Note<\/em>: International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 978-1-5040-3401-2<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cMaybe that\u2019s what life is, a wink of the eye. and winking stars.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Jack Kerouac<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Letter to author Alan Harrington (23 April 1949) Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940 \u2013 1956<\/em>, Vol. II, ed. Ann Charters, New York: Penguin, 1996 edition, p. 188<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Letter to author Alan Harrington. Itlatics & ellipses original to text]:<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cExcuse me for not ever being serious with you. It\u2019s my own way of finding out more about you. You can\u2019t pin a wriggling fish like me. Also \u2013 no deviation here \u2013 I\u2019ve been thinking of going back to my 1st wife, Edie. In any case, enough about me. And I\u2019m in a strange mood this night so many people I know are sitting in actual jails. If all this sounds like Dostoevsky, realize at least that I intend it so, in my upset-mindedness\u2026for \u201cclear reasons\u201d that are not half as important as the fact that I\u2019m actually doing <\/em>it. See?<\/p>\n

Maybe that\u2019s what life is, a wink of the eye, and winking stars<\/span>\u2026and maybe also the hi-ball I\u2019m presently drinking: (He-he!) Also the glee of little children.\u201d (p. 188)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Editor\u2019s copy \u2013 Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956<\/em> (1996 Penguin ed.) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-14-02-3444-6<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cPractice kindness all day to everybody |and you will realize you\u2019re already in heaven now.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Jack Kerouac<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

Letter to first wife Edie Kerouac Parker (28 January 1957) in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957 \u2013 1969,<\/em> Vol. III, ed. Ann Charters, New York: Penguin, 2000 edition, p. 8<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Letter to first wife Edie Kerouac Parker. Lack of apostrophe in \u2018dont\u2019 and word ‘awakenerhood’ original to text]:<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you think the emptiness of space will ever crumble away? Mountains will crumble, but the emptiness of space, which is the one universal essence of mind, the one vast awakenerhood, empty and awake, will never crumble away because it was never born.<\/p>\n

The world you see is just a movie in your mind.<\/p>\n

Rocks dont see it.<\/p>\n

Bless and sit down.<\/p>\n

Forgive and forget.<\/p>\n

Practice kindness all day to everybody<\/span><\/p>\n

and you will realize you\u2019re already<\/span><\/p>\n

in heaven now.<\/span>\u201d (p. 8)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Editor\u2019s copy \u2013 Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1957-1969<\/em> (2000 Penguin ed.) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-14-02-9615-8<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cT<\/strong>he only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes \u201cAwww!\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Jack Kerouac<\/strong>, American author<\/p>\n

On the Road<\/em> (1955) New York: Penguin Books, 1991 edition, p. 8<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” add_icon=”true” title=”Misquotes” tab_id=”1449531592148-05fdd3db-5676094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattribution notes<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: This Kerouac verse inspired an oft-quoted (and usually misattributed) advertising copy that begins \u201cHere\u2019s to the crazy ones…<\/span><\/strong>\u201d. The \u2018crazy ones\u2019 quote is an ad company creation and not<\/u> a part of Kerouac\u2019s On the Road <\/em>or any of his other works. Please see our separate post on the misattribution for more information.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

\u201cThey rushed down the street together, digging everything in the early way they had, which later became so much sadder and perceptive and blank. But then they danced down the streets like dingledodies, and I shambled after as I\u2019ve been doing all my life after people who interest me, because the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes \u201cAwww!<\/span>\u201d. (p. 8)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Editor\u2019s copy \u2013 On the Road<\/em> (1955|1991 Penguin edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-14-01-852166<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattributed to Jack Kerouac –<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Charles Kuralt<\/strong><\/span>, American journalist<\/p>\n

Commencement address to University of North Carolina at Asheville (11 May 1996) \u201cCharles Kuralt Commencement Address 1996,\u201d UNCA Ramsey Library Video Production<\/em>, Asheville, NC: UNC Center for Public Television; online via UNCA Ramsey Library Video Production & YouTube, 6 April 2015 (Video – 19:00 minutes. Quote can be heard at 0:36 & 15:04) www.youtube.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” add_icon=”true” title=”Misquotes” tab_id=”1453315828190-b4d7b461-d58d5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattribution notes<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n

Journalist\u00a0Charles Kuralt\u2019s <\/span>quote has been frequently and incorrectly attributed to \u2018Beat Generation\u2019 author Jack Kerouac<\/strong><\/span>. The possible misattribution may stem from a shared title used by both men: Charles Kuralt hosted a CBS News show called \u201cOn the Road\u201d from 1967 to the mid-1980s, and Kerouac was best known for his 1955 book,\u00a0On the Road<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Title similarities aside, however – the quote definitely belongs to Kuralt.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Commencement address]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThink for yourselves. The way of the crowd is not your way. Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: \u201cCharles Kuralt Commencement Address 1996\u201d (11 May 1996) online via UNCA Ramsey Library Video Production & YouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Jy8Z_nqn_Q0<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattributed to Jack Kerouac –<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They\u2019re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them; disagree with them; glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can\u2019t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.<\/span>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Rob Siltanen<\/strong><\/span>, with Ken Segall<\/strong><\/span> & Lee Clow<\/strong><\/span>, TBWA\/Chiat\/Day advertising<\/p>\n

\u201cThink Different\u201d marketing video for Apple Corporation (1997) ed. Dan Bootzin, narrated Richard Dreyfuss, Los Angeles, CA: Chiat\/Day; video online via \u2018Apple \u2013 Think Different \u2013 Full Version,\u2019 posted 21 August 2010, YouTube (video – 1:09) www.youtube.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” add_icon=”true” title=”Misquotes” tab_id=”1449531592148-05fdd3db-5676094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattribution note<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n

Rob Siltanen<\/strong>, the chairman of advertising firm Siltanen & Partners, wrote a script for an Apple computers ad campaign that evoked the flow and tone of American author Jack Kerouac\u2019s book On the Road<\/em>.\u00a0 He was so close, in fact, that Kerouac frequently (and incorrectly) receives credit for text that is totally original to Siltanen and his team.<\/p>\n

See also<\/em>: The Kerouac quote which begins \u201cThe only people for me are the mad ones…<\/span>\u201d on our Jack Kerouac author page.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Full text of Apple\u2019s \u2018Think Different\u2019 advertising campaign video.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They\u2019re not fond of rules, and they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them; disagree with them; glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can\u2019t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.<\/span>\u201d<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: For more background on the \u2018Think Different\u2019 video and copy, see Rob Siltanen\u2019s \u201cThe Real Story Behind Apple\u2019s \u2018Think Different\u2019 Campaign (14 December 2011) Forbe\u2019s magazine; online via www.forbes.com<\/a>. A full link to this page can be found under our \u201cSource Link\u201d tab.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Featured source – video advertisement]<\/span>: \u2018Apple \u2013 Think Different \u2013 Full Version\u2019 (1997) online via YouTube: https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cFEarBzelBs<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong> [Author background]<\/span>: \u2018The Real Story Behind Apple\u2019s \u2018Think Different\u2019 Campaign (14 December 2011) online via Forbes: https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/onmarketing\/2011\/12\/14\/the-real-story-behind-apples-think-different-campaign\/#3f75b60062ab<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattributed to Jack Kerouac –<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.<\/span>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Allen Ginsberg<\/strong><\/span>, American author<\/p>\n

Journal entry (30 July 1947) The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems 1937-1952 <\/em>(2006) ed. Juanita Libermann-Plimpton & Bill Morgan, Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, p. 199<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” add_icon=”true” title=”Misquotes” tab_id=”1453315828190-b4d7b461-d58d5381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattribution notes<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n

Ginsberg\u2019s quote has been misattributed to his friend and fellow \u2018beat generation\u2019 author Jack Kerouac<\/strong><\/span>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Part II of diary entry for 30 July 1947, 1:45AM]:<\/p>\n

\u201cNeal simply cannot accept my emotions of masochism and dependence, they are out of place. Why? I do not know anymore really what I thought then. Push. Analyze. Hold it. My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them<\/span>.\u201d (p. 199)<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source ISBN” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e05381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0Editor\u2019s copy \u2013 The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice<\/em> (2006) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 987-0-306-81562-1<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattributed to Jack Kerouac –<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhere moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.<\/span>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Georg Christoph Lichtenberg<\/strong>, German author & scientist<\/p>\n

Aphorism from his \u2018scrapbook\u2019 [Sudelb\u00fccher<\/em>] (c. 1765-1799) in The Reflections of Lichtenberg<\/em>, trans. Norman Alliston, London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1908, p. 32; online via Cornell University & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-ban” add_icon=”true” title=”Misquotes” tab_id=”1449531592148-05fdd3db-5676094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Misattribution & misquote notes<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n

Lichtenberg\u2019s quote has been incorrectly attributed to American author Jack Kerouac<\/strong><\/span>, often also with the word \u2018if\u2019 instead of \u2018where\u2019:<\/p>\n

Original Lichtenberg quote<\/em>: \u201cWhere moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Misquote\/paraphrase<\/span><\/em>: \u201cIf moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>[Single line, from notebook of aphorisms]:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere moderation is a fault indifference is a crime<\/span>.\u201d (p. 32)<\/p>\n

Source note<\/em><\/strong>: In the preface to The Reflections of Lichtenberg,<\/em>\u00a0translator & editor Norman Alliston noted that his translation was based on the 1844 edition released by Lichtenberg\u2019s sons. (p. 16)<\/p>\n

German text<\/em><\/strong>: \u201cWo M\u00e4ssigung ein Fehler ist, da ist Gleichg\u00fcltigkeit ein Verbrechen.\u201d (p. 166)<\/p>\n

[German source<\/em>: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Vermischt Schriften<\/em> (1853) Vol. I, ed. Christoph W. Lichtenberg, G\u00f6ttingen: Verlag der Dieterichschen, p. 166; online via New York Public Library & Google Books, books.google.com<\/a>]<\/span><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf635381-89e5486b-50b8″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Source link <\/em><\/strong>[Featured source]<\/span>: The Reflections of Lichtenberg<\/em> (1908) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=M6QxAQAAMAAJ&q=moderation+is#v=snippet&q=moderation%20is&f=false<\/a><\/p>\n

Source link <\/em><\/strong>[German text]<\/span>: Vermischt Schriften<\/em> (1853) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=UkomAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA166&dq=Lichtenberg+%2B+Gleichg%C3%BCltigkeit+ein+Verbrechen<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n

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