Jack Kerouac słynne cytaty
Jack Kerouac Cytaty o życiu
Jack Kerouac cytaty
W drodze
Podziemni
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że zniewala nas za duży świat i że to jest pożegnanie. Ale człowiek wypatruje już kolejnej szalonej przygody pod tym samym niebem.
W drodze
„Jakie masz plany wobec siebie, Ed?”
spytałem.
– Bo ja wiem – odparł – Idę przed siebie. Załapuję się na życie.
W drodze
Jack Kerouac: Cytaty po angielsku
“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”
Part Two, Ch. 3
On the Road (1957)
“Write in recollection and amazement for yourself”
"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/kerouac-technique.html 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)
“Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.”
Źródło: The Dharma Bums
“Rocks are space, and space is illusion.”
Źródło: The Dharma Bums
“I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all.”
Źródło: The Dharma Bums (1958)
Kontekst: I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling. Ecstacy, even, I felt, with flashes of sudden remembrance, and feeling sweaty and drowsy I felt like sleeping and dreaming in the grass.
Źródło: The Dharma Bums (1958)
Kontekst: "Now you understand the Oriental passion for tea," said Japhy. "Remember that book I told you about; the first sip is joy, the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy."
“We tiptoed around each other like heartbreaking new friends.”
Źródło: On the Road
“Go moan for man. It's the pathos of people that gets us down, all the lovers in this dream.”
Źródło: On the Road
“All of life is a foreign country.”
Letter to John Clellon Holmes (24 June 1949), published in The Beat Vision: A Primary Sourcebook (1987) edited by Arthur Knight and Kit Knight, page 93.
“I'd rather be thin than famous
but I'm fat
paste that in your broadway show”
Źródło: Mexico City Blues
“I felt free and therefore I was free.”
Źródło: The Dharma Bums
“Though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are still pretty glorious.”
Wariant: Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
Źródło: The Dharma Bums
“It's only through form that we can realize emptiness”
Źródło: The Dharma Bums