Jack Kerouac: Citáty anglicky (strana 7)
Jack Kerouac byl americký spisovatel. Citáty anglicky.Letter to Ed White (5 July 1950) as published in The Missouri Review, Vol. XVII, No. 3, 1994, page 137, and also quoted in Jack Kerouac: Angelheaded Hipster (1996) by Steve Turner, p. 117
“I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”
Zdroj: On the Road
“If you own a rug you own too much.”
This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
Misattributed
“The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.”
Zdroj: The Dharma Bums
“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
Zdroj: On the Road
“Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.”
Zdroj: Lonesome Traveler
“I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion”
Varianta: I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.
Zdroj: On the Road
“Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.”
Zdroj: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
“Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?”
Zdroj: The Dharma Bums
“cliches are truisms and all truisms are true”
Varianta: Clichés are truisms and all truisms are true
Zdroj: Big Sur
“I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.”
Zdroj: On the Road