Quotes from bookThe Dharma Bums
The Dharma Bums is a 1958 novel by Beat Generation author Jack Kerouac. The basis for the novel's semi-fictional accounts are events occurring years after the events of On the Road. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet and essayist Gary Snyder, who was instrumental in Kerouac's introduction to Buddhism in the mid-1950s.
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
Source: The Dharma Bums (1958)
Context: "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."
“To the children and the innocent it's all the same.”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
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“Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?”
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“Mind is the Maker, for no reason at all, for all this creation, created to fall.”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
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“It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
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“I think it's a lovely hallucination but I love it sorta.”
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“That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.”
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“The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.”
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“It was all completely serious, all completely hallucinated, all completely happy.”
Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums
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