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“This is the story of America. Everybody's doing what they think they're supposed to do.”
Zdroj: On the Road: the Original Scroll
“I feel guilty for being a member of the human race.”
Zdroj: Big Sur (1962)
“A sociable smile is nothing but teeth.”
Sometimes misquoted as "A sociable smile is nothing but a mouth full of teeth."
Desolation Angels (1965)
“Things are so hard to figure out when you live from day to day in this feverish and silly world.”
Zdroj: On the Road: The Original Scroll
“Maybe that's what life is… a wink of the eye and winking stars.”
Letter to Alan Harrington (23 April 1949) published in Kerouac: Selected Letters: Volume 1 1940-1956 (1996)
Zdroj: Selected Letters, 1940-1956
“The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.”
Zdroj: The Dharma Bums
“I just won't sleep," I decided. There were so many other interesting things to do.”
Zdroj: On the Road
Journal entry (November 1951) as published in the Kerouac ROMnibus http://users.ox.ac.uk/~ctitext2/resguide/resources/j100.html
“The fact that everybody in the world dreams every night ties all mankind together.”
Book of Dreams (1961) Foreword
As misquoted in Night and Day (1989) by Jack Maguire, p. 221; Maguire does not cite his source, so this widely quoted variant appears to be an erroneous paraphrase of this published statement. It is not a direct quote from some other statement by Kerouac.
Varianta: All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
“My eyes were glued on life
and they were full of tears.”
Zdroj: Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings
“Better to sleep in an uncomfortable bed free, than sleep in a comfortable bed unfree.”
Zdroj: On the Road
“There are worse things than being mad.”
This appears not to be a Kerouac quote. It has not been found in any of Kerouac's published work.
Misattributed