Jack Kerouac
"A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world."
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"A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world."
"طعنة ألمٍ اخترقت فؤادي، كما تفعل كلما لاحت لي حبيبةٌ تمضي في اتجاهٍ معاكسٍ في هذا العالم الشاسع."
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
"I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling."
"تمنيت لو أنني استلقي على جانب الدرب وأستعيد كل شيء. هكذا تفعل الغابات بك، تبدو مألوفة دائمًا، مفقودة منذ زمن بعيد، كوجه قريب مات منذ أمد، كحلم قديم، كشذرة من أغنية منسية تنجرف فوق الماء، والأهم من ذلك كله، كأبديات ذهبية من طفولة أو رجولة مضت، وكل ما جرى من حياة وموت ولوعة قلب قبل ملايين السنين، والغيوم وهي تمر في الأعالي تبدو وكأنها تشهد (بألفتها الوحيدة) على هذا الشعور."
Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums
"If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered dangerous but set in place in their compartmental understandings."
"إن قال النقاد إن عملك نتن، فذلك لأنهم يريدونه أن يكون كذلك، وبوسعهم أن يجعلوه نتناً بإخافتك ودفعك إلى الامتثال لمعاييرهم المريحة الضيقة. معايير متدنية لدرجة أنها لم تعد تُعد خطيرة، بل هي راسخة في فهمهم المجزأ."
Jack Kerouac
"All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together."
"إن البشر جميعًا كائنات حالمة أيضًا. والأحلام هي ما يربط البشرية جمعاء."
Jack Kerouac
"Maybe that's what life is... a wink of the eye and winking stars."
"لعل الحياة ليست سوى غمضة عين ونجوم تتلألأ."
Jack Kerouac
"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"
"إلى أين تمضين يا أمريكا، في سيارتك اللامعة عبر الليل؟"
Jack Kerouac
"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion."
"إن عظائم الأمور لا ينجزها من يستسلم للتيارات والموضات والآراء الشائعة."
Jack Kerouac
"All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land."
"إن خيرة رجالنا يُستهزأ بهم في هذه الأرض الكابوسية."
Jack Kerouac
"The only people for me are the mad ones: the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who... burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles."
"أهل قلبي هم المجانين وحدهم: أولئك الذين جنّوا للحياة، جنّوا للكلام، جنّوا للخلاص، المتلهفون لكل شيء في آن واحد، الذين... يتوهجون، يتوهجون، يتوهجون كشموع رومانية صفراء باهرة."
Jack Kerouac
"I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too."
Jack Kerouac
"Mankind is like dogs, not gods - as long as you don't get mad they'll bite you - but stay mad and you'll never be bitten. Dogs don't respect humility and sorrow."
Jack Kerouac
"I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life."
Jack Kerouac
"The only people for me are the mad ones the ones who are mad to live mad to talk mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing but burn burn burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."
Jack Kerouac
"[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes Awww!"
Jack Kerouac
On the Road
"I am young now and can look upon my body and soul with pride. But it will be mangled soon, and later it will begin to disintegrate, and then I shall die, and die conclusively. How can we face such a fact, and not live in fear?"
Jack Kerouac
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