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Zdroj: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954
Satori in Paris (1966)
Zdroj: Satori in Paris & Pic
“All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.”
Zdroj: On the Road: the Original Scroll
“Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.”
Zdroj: The Scripture of the Golden Eternity
Varianta: I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another til I drop.
Zdroj: On the Road
Part Three, Ch. 11
Zdroj: On the Road (1957)
Kontext: In 1942 I was the star in one of the filthiest dramas of all time. I was a seaman, and went to the Imperial Café on Scollay Square in Boston to drink; I drank sixty glasses of beer and retired to the toilet, where I wrapped myself around the toilet bowl and went to sleep. During the night at least a hundred seamen and assorted civilians came in and cast their sentient debouchements on me till I was unrecognizably caked. What difference does it make after all? — anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind.
“It was a rainy night. It was the myth of a rainy night.”
Zdroj: On the Road
“The road must eventually lead to the whole world.”
Zdroj: On the Road
“It's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies”
Zdroj: On the Road
“Prison is where you promise yourself the right to live.”
Zdroj: On the Road
girls, visions, anything, just in the same way and forever and I accept lostness forever.
Visions of Cody (1960)
“I'm right there, swimming the river of hardships but I know how to swim…”
Zdroj: Desolation Angels