Jack Kerouac citations

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“N'utilisez pas le téléphone. Les gens ne sont jamais prêts à y répondre. Utilisez la poésie.”

“Comme toujours, j’étais surpris de voir combien c’était facile de partir et combien réconfortante en était la sensation. Le monde était soudainement riche de possibilités.”

“Bientôt, je trouverai les bons mots, ils seront très simples.”

“Les grands exploits ne sont pas accomplis par ceux qui succombent aux tendances, à la mode et suivent les opinions populaires.”

“Toute ma vie misérable défilait devant mes yeux fatigués, et j'ai réalisé que quoi que l'on fasse, ce sera toujours une perte de temps, alors autant devenir fou.”

“et je trainais derrière eux comme je l’ai fait toute ma vie derrière les gens qui m’intéressent”

“Nous étions perchés sur le toit de l´Amérique, et ne savions que gueuler - pour atteindre, qui sait? l´autre cóté de la nuit, l´Est, au-delá des plaines, ou un vieillard chenu était peut-ětre en route vers nous, porteur de la Parole, sur le point d´arriver pour nous faire taire.”

“Il pouvait à peine placer un mot tellement ça l'excitait de vivre.”

“La seule chose après laquelle nous languissons durant notre existence, qui nous fait soupirer et gémir et souffrir toutes sortes de doucereuses nausées, c'est le souvenir de quelque félicité perdue que l'on a sans doute éprouvée dans le sein maternel et qui ne saurait se reproduire (mais nous nous refusons à l'admettre) que dans la mort. Mais qui souhaite mourir?”

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”

“The air was soft, the stars so fine, the promise of every cobbled alley so great, that I thought I was in a dream.”

“A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world.”

“The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.”

“Boys and girls in America have such a sad time together; sophistication demands that they submit to sex immediately without proper preliminary talk. Not courting talk — real straight talk about souls, for life is holy and every moment is precious.”

“I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.”

“What's in store for me in the direction I don't take?”

“beautiful insane
in the rain”

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life”

“It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.”

“I am going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”

“Life must be rich and full of loving--it's no good otherwise, no good at all, for anyone.”

“Everything is going to the beat — It's the beat generation”

“Thinking of the stars night after night I begin to realize "The stars are words" and all the innumerable worlds in the Milky Way are words, and so is this world too. And I realize that no matter where I am, whether in a little room full of thought, or in this endless universe of stars and mountains, it's all in my mind.”

“I went one afternoon to the church of my childhood and had a vision of what I must have really meant with "Beat"… the vision of the word Beat as being to mean beatific…”

“I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.”

“We should be wondering tonight, "Is there a world?"”

“Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.'
'Where we going, man?'
'I don't know but we gotta go.”

“Houses are full of things that gather dust”

“On soft Spring nights I'll stand in the yard under the stars - Something good will come out of all things yet - And it will be golden and eternal just like that - There's no need to say another word.”

“So therefore I dedicate myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being.”

“And the story of love is a long sad tale ending in graves.”

“Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.”

“One man practicing kindness in the wilderness is worth all the temples this world pulls.”

“But why think about that when all the golden lands ahead of you and all kinds of unforseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive to see?”

“As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.”

“Something good will come of all things yet”

“My aunt once said that the world would never find peace until men fell at their women's feet and asked for forgiveness.”

“We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked at each other for the last time.”