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Jack Kerouac amerikai író, költő és művész. Annak az írói és baráti körnek volt a tagja, amely az általa kitalált „beatnemzedék” néven vált leginkább ismertté.

Kerouac már élete során híressé vált, de kevés kritikai elismerést kapott. Ma viszont jelentős és befolyásos szerzőként tartják számon. Spontán, vallomásos prózai stílusa számos írót megihletett, köztük Tom Robbinst, Lester Bangset, Richard Brautigant és Ken Kesey-t, továbbá a New Journalism újságírói műfaj egyes szerzőit. Kerouac hatott a baby boom nemzedék zenészeire, beleértve a The Beatlest, Bob Dylant, Morrisseyt és Jim Morrisont. Legismertebb művei az Úton, a Dharma hobók, a Művésztelep és a Cody látomásai .

Kerouac ifjú felnőttként vagy a hatalmas amerikai tájakon barangolt, vagy pedig az édesanyjával élt. A háború után átalakuló Amerikában előbb a helyét kereste, de végül elvetette az 50-es évek értékeit és társadalmi normáit. Írásai gyakran tükrözik azt a vágyát, hogy kiszabaduljon a társadalmi kötöttségekből, és magasabb értelmet találjon.

Útkeresése folyamán Kerouac drogokkal kísérletezett, és behajózta a világot. Írásaira gyakran tekintenek úgy, mint a 60-as évek ellenkultúrájának katalizátorára. Kerouac 47 évesen, a floridai St. Petersburgban hunyt el, alkoholizmus kiváltotta belső vérzés következtében. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. március 1922 – 21. október 1969
Jack Kerouac fénykép
Jack Kerouac: 292 idézet3 Kedvelés

Jack Kerouac híres idézetei

„Semmi hátam mögött, minden előttem, mint mindig az úton.”

Jack Kerouac

„Az egyetlen igazság a zene.”

Jack Kerouac

„Meglepett, mint mindig, hogy milyen könnyű volt a távozás, és milyen jó érzés volt. A világ hirtelen tele volt lehetőségekkel.”

Jack Kerouac

Jack Kerouac idézetek

„Mindig büszke vagyok rá, hogy valamilyen módon szeretem a világot - a gyűlölet annyira egyszerű.”

Jack Kerouac

„Tanúm az üres ég.”

Jack Kerouac

„Ne ítélj semmit, boldog leszel. Bocsáss meg mindent, boldogabb leszel. Szeress mindent, akkor leszel a legboldogabb.”

Jack Kerouac

„Fájdalom hasított a szívembe, mint minden alkalommal, amikor megláttam egy lányt, akit szerettem, és aki az ellenkező irányba ment ebben a túl nagy világban.”

Jack Kerouac

„Dean Moriartyra gondolok, még az öreg Dean Moriartyra is, az apára, akit soha nem találtunk meg, gondolok Dean Moriartyra.”

Jack Kerouac

„Decemberben is úgy fogsz szeretni, mint májusban?”

Jack Kerouac

„Úgyis minden sírással végződik.”

Jack Kerouac

„Nem tudom, nem érdekel, és nem is számít.”

Jack Kerouac

„Mi vár rám abban az irányban, amelyet nem választok?”

Jack Kerouac

„Mert a végén nem fogsz emlékezni arra az időre, amit az irodában töltöttél, vagy a fűnyírásra szántál. Mássz fel arra az istenverte hegyre.”

Jack Kerouac

„A levegő lágy volt, a csillagok olyan szépek, minden macskaköves sikátor ígérete olyan nagyszerű, hogy azt hittem, álmodom.”

Jack Kerouac

„Ütött-kopott bőröndjeink ismét a járdán halmozódtak; hosszabb út állt előttünk. De nem számít, az út az élet.”

Jack Kerouac

„Az egész nyomorult életem lepergett fáradt szemeim előtt, és rájöttem, hogy bármit is teszel, a végén úgyis csak időpocsékolás lesz, úgyhogy akár meg is őrülhetsz.”

Jack Kerouac

„Mert nem volt olyan hely, ahol meg tudott volna maradni anélkül, hogy ne fáradjon el, és mert nem volt hova menni, csak mindenhova, tovább sodródni a csillagok alatt...”

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Jack Kerouac: Idézetek angolul

“But O Sarina come with me to my bed of woes, let me love you gently in the night, long time, we got all night, till dawn, till Juliet's rising sun and Romeo's vial sink, till I have slaked my thirst of Samsara at your portal rosy petal lips and left saviour juice in your rosy flesh garden to melt and dry and ululate another baby for the void, come sweet Sarina in my naughty arms, be dirty in my clean milk, and I'll detest the defecate I leave in your milky empowered cyst-and-vulva chamber, your cloacan clara file-hool through which slowly drool the hall-gyzm, to castles in your hassel flesh and I'll protect you trembling thighs against my heart and kiss your lips and cheeks and Lair and love you everywhere and that'll be that…”

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Jack Kerouac könyv Desolation Angels

Desolation Angels (1965)

“(…) who is he that is not 'he' because of an idiot's ignorance?”

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Jack Kerouac könyv Vanity of Duluoz

Vanity of Duluoz (1968)

“Everything belongs to me because I am poor.”

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Visions Of Cody (1973) and The Beginning Of Bop (1959)

“The mad road, lonely, leading around the bend into the openings of space towards the horizon Wasatch snows promised us in the vision of the West, spine heights at the world's end, coast of blue Pacific starry night — nobone halfbanana moons sloping in the tangled night sky, the torments of great formations in mist, the huddled invisible insect in the car racing onwards, illuminate. — The raw cut, the drag, the butte, the star, the draw, the sunflower in the grass — orangebutted west lands of Arcadia, forlorn sands of the isolate earth, dewy exposures to infinity in black space, home of the rattlesnake and the gopher the level of the world, low and flat: the charging restless mute unvoiced road keening in a seizure of tarpaulin power into the route.”

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Jack Kerouac könyv Visions of Cody

Visions of Cody (1960)

“Who knows, my God, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?”

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"The Origins of the Beat Generation" in Playboy (June 1959)

“At one point the driver said, "For God's sakes, you're rocking the boat back there." Actually we were; the car was swaying as Dean and I both swayed to the rhythm and the IT of our final excited joy in talking and living to the blank tranced end of all innumerable riotous angelic particulars that had been lurking in our souls all our lives.”

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Jack Kerouac könyv On the Road

Part Three, Ch. 5
On the Road (1957)

“A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.”

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Some of the Dharma (1997)

“I could give you a list a mile long of the homosexuals in the arts but there's no point in making a big tzimis about a relatively harmless and cool state of affairs — Each man to his own tastes.”

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Jack Kerouac könyv Desolation Angels

Desolation Angels (1965)

“Put down the pen someone else gave you. No one ever drafted a life worth living on borrowed ink.”

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Not a Kerouac quote, but part of the text from a publicity campaign for the Beat Museum, San Francisco, composed by the advertising agency Gyro: http://paulacw.com/The-Beat-Museum
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“Everything is the same, the fog says 'We are fog and we fly by dissolving like ephemera,' and the leaves say 'We are leaves and we jiggle in the wind, that's all, we come and go, grow and fall' — Even the paper bags in my garbage pit say 'We are mantransformed paper bags made out of wood pulp, we are kinda proud of being paper bags as long as that will be possible, but we'll be mush again with our sisters the leaves come rainy season' — The tree stumps say 'We are tree stumps torn out of the ground by men, sometimes by the wind, we have big tendrils full of earth that drink out of the earth' — Men say 'We are men, we pull out tree stumps, we make paper bags, we think wise thoughts, we make lunch, we look around, we make a great effort to realise everything is the same.”

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Jack Kerouac könyv Big Sur

Big Sur (1962)

“If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer bee considered 'dangerous' but set in place in their compartmental understandings.”

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This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
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“Mankind is like dogs, not gods — as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you — but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow.”

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Some of the Dharma (1997)

“It’s not that I can’t fall in love. It’s really that I can’t help falling in love with too many things all at once. So, you must understand why I can’t distinguish between what’s platonic and what isn’t, because it’s all too much and not enough at the same time.”

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This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
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“A man needs truth like a machine needs oil.”

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Often attributed to Kerouac's novel Big Sur, the quote cannot be found in that book, nor in any of Kerouac's other published works. It is, in fact, a quote by the Kerouac character in the movie of Big Sur (2013) and therefore composed by the screenplay writer Michael Polish, rather than by Jack Kerouac.
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“Believe in the holy contour of life”

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"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995) and in a letter to Don Allen (1958); published in Heaven & Other Poems (1977)

“The one thing that we yearn for in our living days, that makes us sigh and groan and undergo sweet nauseas of all kinds, is the remembrance of some lost bliss that was probably experienced in the womb and can only be reproduced (though we hate to admit it) in death.”

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Jack Kerouac könyv On the Road

Part Two, Ch. 4
On the Road (1957)

“All you do is head straight for the grave, a face just covers a skull awhile. Stretch that skull-cover and smile.”

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Visions Of Cody (1973)

“As early pioneers in the knowing, that when you lose your reason, you attain highest perfect knowing.”

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Book of Blues (1995)

“It is not my fault that certain so-called bohemian elements have found in my writings something to hang their peculiar beatnik theories on.”

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The New York Journal-American (8 Dec 1960)

“"What are you trying to do, Kerouac?" I'd ask myself in my sleepingbag at night, "trying to deny reality with all this Buddha stuff, ya jerk?" … "Poor detailed immaculate incarnate fool, and you call yourself Self … Take off your coat and crash wits." And I realized that all this Buddhism was a STRAIN at telling the untellable emptiness yet that nothing was truer, a perfect paradox.”

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Meditation in the Woods (1958)

“(...) comes under the influence of old French Fairies who accuse him of constipation of the brain & diarrhea of the mouth”

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Jack Kerouac könyv Scattered Poems

Scattered Poems (1971)

“What are you trying to do, Kerouac? I'd ask myself in my sleepingbag at night, trying to deny reality with all this Buddha stuff, ya jerk?... Poor detailed immaculate incarnate fool, and you call yourself Self ... Take off your coat and crash wits.”

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And I realized that all this Buddhism was a STRAIN at telling the untellable emptiness yet that nothing was truer, a perfect paradox.

Meditation in the Woods (1958)

“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... People began to call themselves beatniks, beats, jazzniks, bopniks, bugniks and finally I was called the "avatar" of all this.”

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"The Origins of the Beat Generation" in Playboy (June 1959)

“Defy the law! Write the heartbroken poetry of the World!”

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This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
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