Джек Керуак цитаты

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Источник: Book of Sketches

Part Two, Ch. 3
On the Road (1957)

Источник: On the Road

"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)

Источник: The Dharma Bums

Источник: The Dharma Bums

Источник: The Dharma Bums

Desolation Angels (1965)

Источник: The Dharma Bums

Источник: The Dharma Bums (1958)
Контексте: 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.

Источник: The Dharma Bums (1958)
Контексте: "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."

Источник: On the Road

Источник: On the Road

Источник: On the Road

Источник: On the Road

Источник: Book of Blues

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.

Источник: Mexico City Blues

Источник: The Dharma Bums

Источник: On the Road

Источник: On the Road

Вариант: Let the mind beware, that though the flesh be bugged, the circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.
Источник: The Dharma Bums

Источник: On the Road

Источник: The Dharma Bums

Источник: The Dharma Bums

Источник: On the Road

Источник: The Dharma Bums