Jack Kerouac: Frasi in inglese (pagina 7)

Jack Kerouac era scrittore e poeta statunitense. Frasi in inglese.
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“I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once that far down, everyone will understand because they are the same that far down.”

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

“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.”

Jack Kerouac libro I vagabondi del Dharma

Origine: The Dharma Bums

“Nothing ever happened - Not even this”

Jack Kerouac libro Big Sur

Origine: Big Sur

“Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.”

Jack Kerouac libro Lonesome Traveler

Origine: Lonesome Traveler

“I had nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion”

Jack Kerouac libro Sulla strada

Variante: I have nothing to offer anybody, except my own confusion.
Origine: On the Road

“Don't tell them too much about your soul. They're waiting for just that.”

Origine: Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac 1947-1954

“Who can leap the world's ties and sit with me among white clouds?”

Jack Kerouac libro I vagabondi del Dharma

Origine: The Dharma Bums

“cliches are truisms and all truisms are true”

Jack Kerouac libro Big Sur

Variante: Clichés are truisms and all truisms are true
Origine: Big Sur

“Life is life, and kind is kind”

Jack Kerouac libro Sulla strada

Origine: On the Road