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Lonesome Traveler (1960)
Kontext: No man should go through life without once experiencing healthy, even bored solitude in the wilderness, finding himself depending solely on himself and thereby learning his true and hidden strength. Learning for instance, to eat when he's hungry and sleep when he's sleepy.

“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark, singing, swigging wine, spitting, jumping, running -- that's the way to live. All alone and free in the soft sands of the beach….”

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Jack Kerouac kniha The Dharma Bums

Zdroj: The Dharma Bums

“That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.”

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Jack Kerouac kniha The Dharma Bums

Zdroj: The Dharma Bums

“Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy”

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“I'd sleep and forget it; I had my own life, my own sad and ragged life forever.”

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Jack Kerouac kniha On the Road

Zdroj: On the Road

“Believe that the world is an ethereal flower, and ye live.”

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Jack Kerouac kniha The Dharma Bums

Zdroj: The Dharma Bums

“And then we’ll all go off to sweet life, ‘cause now is the time and we all know time!”

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Jack Kerouac kniha On the Road

Zdroj: On the Road

“The truth of the matter is, you die, all you do is die, and yet you live, yes you live, and that's no Harvard lie.”

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“Some of my most neurotically fierce bitterness is the result of realizing how untrue people have become.”

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Zdroj: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

“It was the work of the quiet mountains, this torrent of purity at my feet.”

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Jack Kerouac kniha The Dharma Bums

Zdroj: The Dharma Bums

“Last night I walked clear down to Times Square & just as I arrived I suddenly realized I was a ghost - it was my ghost walking on the sidewalk.”

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Jack Kerouac kniha On the Road

Zdroj: On the Road

“Emotionlessly she kissed me in the vineyard and walked off down the row. We turned at a dozen paces, for love is a duel, and looked up at each other for the last time.”

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“We fumed and screamed in our mountain nook, mad drunken Americans in the mighty land. We were on the roof of America and all we could do was yell, I guess--across the night…”

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Jack Kerouac kniha On the Road

Zdroj: On the Road

“The bus roared on. I was going home in October. Everybody goes home in October.”

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Jack Kerouac kniha On the Road

Zdroj: On the Road

“I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours”

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Jack Kerouac kniha Tristessa

Zdroj: Tristessa

“Ray, what you got to do is go climb a mountain…”

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Jack Kerouac kniha The Dharma Bums

Zdroj: The Dharma Bums

“I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work.”

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Jack Kerouac kniha The Dharma Bums

Zdroj: The Dharma Bums

“and I shudder sometimes to think of all that stellar mystery of how she IS going to get me in a future lifetime, wow - And I seriously do believe that will be my salvation, too.
A long way to go.”

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Jack Kerouac kniha Big Sur

Zdroj: Big Sur

“When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!”

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Jack Kerouac kniha On the Road

Zdroj: On the Road

“To the children and the innocent it's all the same.”

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Jack Kerouac kniha The Dharma Bums

Zdroj: The Dharma Bums

“Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea.”

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“After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds…”

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Jack Kerouac kniha Lonesome Traveler

Varianta: I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of ‘thinking’ and ‘enjoying’ what they call ‘living’, I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.
Zdroj: Lonesome Traveler

“She brooded and bit her rich lips: my soul began its first sink into her, deep, heady, lost; like drowning in a witches' brew, Keltic, sorcerous, starlike.”

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Jack Kerouac kniha Maggie Cassidy

Zdroj: Maggie Cassidy

“An awful realization that I have been fooling myself all my life thinking there was a next thing to do to keep the show going and actually I'm just a sick clown and so is everybody else…”

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Jack Kerouac kniha Big Sur

Zdroj: Big Sur

“don't stop to think of the words when you do stop, just stop to think of the picture better-and let your mind off yourself in this work.”

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Zdroj: Dr Sax