Jack Kerouac Rowing Quotations

and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old

...and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, it be-at, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown and like in ancient civilizations the slave boatmen rowing galleys to a beat and servants spinning pottery to a beat...