Jack Kerouac citations célèbres
Jack Kerouac Citations
À propos de Neal Cassady et Allen Ginsberg .
), 1957
Jack Kerouac livre Sur la route
On the Road
Jack Kerouac livre Sur la route
On the Road
Jack Kerouac: Citations en anglais
“This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.”
Source: On the Road: the Original Scroll
“I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.”
Jack Kerouac livre Big Sur
Source: Big Sur (1962)
“A sociable smile is nothing but teeth.”
Jack Kerouac livre Desolation Angels
Sometimes misquoted as "A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth."
Desolation Angels (1965)
“Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.”
Source: On the Road: The Original Scroll
“Maybe that's what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
Letter to Alan Harrington (23 April 1949) published in Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956 (1996)
Source: Selected Letters, 1940-1956
Jack Kerouac livre Sur la route
Source: On the Road
“The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.”
Jack Kerouac livre The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums
“I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.”
Jack Kerouac livre Sur la route
Source: On the Road
Journal entry (November 1951) as published in the Kerouac ROMnibus http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ctitext2/resguide/resources/j100.html
“The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.”
Book of Dreams (1961) Foreword
As misquoted in Night and Day (1989) by Jack Maguire, p. 221; Maguire does not cite his source, so this widely quoted variant appears to be an erroneous paraphrase of this published statement. It is not a direct quote from some other statement by Kerouac.
Variante: All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
“My eyes were glued on life
and they were full of tears.”
Jack Kerouac livre Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
Source: Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”
Jack Kerouac livre Sur la route
Source: On the Road
“There are worse things than being mad.”
This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
Misattributed
