“When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!”
Fuente: On the Road
“When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!”
Fuente: On the Road
“To the children and the innocent it's all the same.”
Fuente: The Dharma Bums
Variante: 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.
Fuente: Lonesome Traveler
“February dawn -- frost
on the path
Where I paced all winter.”
Fuente: Book of Haikus
“Ah Japhy you taught me the final lesson of them all, you can't fall off a mountain.”
Fuente: The Dharma Bums
“Some's bastards, some's ain't.
That's the score.”
Fuente: On the Road
"Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" in a letter to Arabelle Porter (28 May 1955); published in Jack Kerouac: Selected Letters 1940-1956 (1995) and in a letter to Don Allen (1958); published in Heaven & Other Poems (1977)
Variante: Accept loss forever
“Sweet life continues in the breeze, in the golden fields.”
Fuente: Book of Sketches
“They spent all week saving pennies and went out Saturdays to spend fifty bucks in three hours.”
Fuente: On the Road
“I suddenly began to realize that everybody in America is a natural-born thief.”
Fuente: On the Road