# Quote — Jack Kerouac, Maggie Cassidy

> To my utter amazement I saw out of the corner of my eye the colored boy laid out almost flat on the floor in a low slung fantastic starting position, something impossibly modern and submarining and subterranean like bop, like the new gesture of a generation.

- Author: [Jack Kerouac](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac.md)
- Book: [Maggie Cassidy](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Maggie_Cassidy#Quotes) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/to-my-utter

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> I'm sure gonna get you tonight — aint gonna be like it used to be with you — I'm gonna find out about you at last.

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> She laughed in his face, he slammed the door shut, put out lights, drove her home, drove the car back skittering crazily in the slush, sick, cursing.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/she-laughed-in-his.md)

> Fluting spring was racing through the corridors and ritual alleys of my sacred brain in holy life and making me wake and resurge to the business of being and becoming a man.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-kerouac/maggie-cassidy/fluting-spring-was.md)