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?”

“I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”

“If you own a rug you own too much.”

“The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.”

“I looked up at the dark sky and prayed to God for a better break in life and a better chance to do something for the little people I loved.”

“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”

“My shoes are clean from walking in the rain.”

“Nothing ever happened - Not even this”

“The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.”

“Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.”

“.. and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didnt know who I was”

“I don't wanta hear all your word descriptions of words words words you made up all winter, man I wanta be enlightened by actions.”

“I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion”

“Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.”

“Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?”

“What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?”

“cliches are truisms and all truisms are true”

“It is possible for the human spirit to win after all.”

“I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.”

“Life is life, and kind is kind”

“ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you”

“Jumping from boulder to boulder and never falling, with a heavy pack, is easier than it sounds; you just can't fall when you get into the rhythm of the dance.”

“I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.”

“We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought when he made life so sad and disinclined.”

“i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.”

“It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.”

“Something that you feel will find its own form.”

“Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.”

“… but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.”

“You guys are going somewhere or just going?”