Jack Kerouac: Frasi in inglese
Jack Kerouac era scrittore e poeta statunitense. Frasi in inglese.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
“I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”
Jack Kerouac libro Sulla strada
Origine: On the Road
“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
“No matter what you do it's bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might as well go mad.”
Jack Kerouac libro Sulla strada
Origine: On the Road
“Paris is a woman but London is an independent man puffing his pipe in a pub.”
Jack Kerouac libro Lonesome Traveler
Origine: Lonesome Traveler
Jack Kerouac libro I vagabondi del Dharma
Origine: The Dharma Bums
“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
“I was having a wonderful time and the whole world opened up before me because I had no dreams.”
Jack Kerouac libro Sulla strada
Origine: On the Road